Does anyone else find the "recent" files section in the Debian 10 (XFCE) file selection dialogs to be significantly less useful than in previous Debian releases

Does anyone else find the "recent" files section in the Debian 10 (XFCE) file selection dialogs to be significantly less useful than in previous Debian releases? Recently created files just... don't show up. This is a hard one to do an internet search for, and saves a surprising amount of time for some workflows if it works consistently. 1000 internet points to anyone who knows how to make it work as well as it did previously.