Comment by illwrks
2 days ago
Have you inadvertently set the search privacy on your drive? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl1bb43b84/...
If that's not the issue try rebuilding your Spotlight search index: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102321
No, Spotlight has just been broken for several years. Thankfully Tahoe seems to have improved it a bit for me.
Thanks, I wasn't looking for technical support. I did spend some time figuring this out (it was 'sudo mdutil -E /' that fixed it) but my point was:
The experience of using macOS, which I pay a large amount of money for, wasn't better than a Linux distribution.