You're right, that's actually what we implemented, application-level hooks, but they needed development and maintenance effort that come for free with the adapt

You're right, that's actually what we implemented, application-level hooks, but they needed development and maintenance effort that come for free with the adapter we're using for OpenSearch integration, which also comes with welcome features: synonyms, partial matches, and many others. Spoiler, the adapter is Searchkick: https://github.com/ankane/searchkick https://github.com/ankane/searchkick