Their current database is still dramatically slower than log files. Waiting for journalctl to produce logs is consistently the slowest part of me working with

Their current database is still dramatically slower than log files. Waiting for journalctl to produce logs is consistently the slowest part of me working with my logs. It's just a silly use of a database. I could probably count on my fingers the number of times I wanted non-sequential log records, and that's the only time I can see a database beating log files. Even if I want non-sequential records, Linux has a plethora of tools to manipulate and query plain text that everyone already knows. I would much rather use grep or awk or another tool I know than learn whatever arcane query syntax journalctl supports.