Gitlab is another culprit for this and their UI/UX is growing to be as awful as every other complex enterprise tool on the market. The search/filter box on the

Gitlab is another culprit for this and their UI/UX is growing to be as awful as every other complex enterprise tool on the market. The search/filter box on the MR and Issues list has the appearance of accepting free input, but what you need to do is use some ridiculous no-code query UI to click your way to a valid query. I can't type 'author: xxx' into the field, because that will tell me that searching that way is unsupported (so why let me do it?). Instead, I have to start typing, select the word 'author', then another box will appear and I have to select '=' in it, and then a third box will materialise where I can search for a username. At this stage, it's basically a coin toss as to whether you get the desired input or the whole form breaks and you have to start again. Someone, somewhere, thought this was more intuitive than parsing a string or offering some predefined filters. My only question is: why?