Netflix's in-built search is astoundingly terrible. I'm sure it's been A/B tested to hell and back, and I'm sure my elderly parents appreciate the giant tiles,

Netflix's in-built search is astoundingly terrible. I'm sure it's been A/B tested to hell and back, and I'm sure my elderly parents appreciate the giant tiles, but for 'power watchers' it's catastrophic. I would literally pay 50% more per month if they would provide me the ability to filter search results to eliminate movies I've seen, movies with less than 2-stars, and to add a search-by-year feature. Instantwatcher.com provides much of this functionality so I hope this API change doesn't force them out of business.