I use Spotlight to open apps the majority of the time as well. But people are fuzzy logic creatures. Sometimes they know the app by name, sometimes they need to

I use Spotlight to open apps the majority of the time as well. But people are fuzzy logic creatures. Sometimes they know the app by name, sometimes they need to see it in the context of a menu ("Oh, it's that program in the Productivity menu from $vendor"). Or they can't remember the name of what they need, but DO know roughly when they downloaded it, or where they put it. I do variations of all these things to find apps, documents and files. Taking any one of them away from me makes me use a less-efficient path, and that's a stupid thing for an OS to enforce on anyone.