In their partial defense, I don't think putting the search bar in the Help menu is either particularly crazy or particularly hidden. Putting it in some dropdown

In their partial defense, I don't think putting the search bar in the Help menu is either particularly crazy or particularly hidden. Putting it in some dropdown menu is probably the correct UI option, and out of the menus that (nearly) all applications have, "Help" is a pretty reasonable choice. Is it super obvious? No, but I mean, "File", "Edit," and "View" are objectively worse, so that only really leaves the "[Name of Application]" as a possibility. Which would also be defensible, but I'm not sure it would be better. (Now, the complaint that I've seen elsewhere -- that using that same search field to search actual documentation is basically useless -- is an entirely different kettle of fish...)