I continue to not understand this -- The Everything app was capable of instant search on Windows in like 2008, and yet on modern devices, with SSDs, far more RA

I continue to not understand this -- The Everything app was capable of instant search on Windows in like 2008, and yet on modern devices, with SSDs, far more RAM, and faster CPUs, I have to wait a good 2-3s for results to appear. How did one dev managed to achieve what, apparently, no corporate entity ever has?