They have appeared to have implemented disabling instant search by simply reverting all post-instant search antifeatures: No instant search No steal focus on

They have appeared to have implemented disabling instant search by simply reverting all post-instant search antifeatures: No instant search No steal focus on result page (and thus, no breaking backspace) No overriding arrow key scroll into weird blue-arrow modal UI Basically 2010 era google, all at one stroke. The result quality is still kind of meh though.