I'm not sure there's a point to building launchers like this on Windows, since you can just open start menu and start typing straight away to find what you want

I'm not sure there's a point to building launchers like this on Windows, since you can just open start menu and start typing straight away to find what you want. In addition to the standard search (admittedly not great in Windows 11 unless you kill Bing via regedit) there is Win-R to get the popup for running apps when you know the binary name, Win-I to open new Settings app with context-sensitive search, Win-X to get the admin menu with all the usual keyboard shortcuts, Win-T to quickly navigate the task bar, etc. I always got the impression the reason MacOS has all these different third-party launchers and window managers is because the in-built functionality for keyboard-based navigation is so bad.