Umm..I _am_ talking about the free text search. Miles superior is NOT miles faster when you want speed. You need not change tabs, fiddle laboriously with the finicky scope drop-down and create custom scopes. Instead you execute an ripgrep command with filter directories (or load alias/from history), pipe to neovim and get auto-preview of results, including surrounding preview code. You don't have to load a huge project and wait for looong code-indexing.

if you can't see how this is miles superior to IDE grep (esp when exploring a number of large projects), then there's no use arguing as you've made up your mind you just love being in the IDE for no actual rational reason.