> Each update seemed to chip away at something I liked about the platform.

I have a MBP, 48GB RAM running today's stable version of macOS Sequoia 15.6.1

If I do cmd+space and type something it has 0 results for anything in my Documents folder. It's been that way for momnths despite all the OS updates.

macOS used to be good.

If that's not the issue try rebuilding your Spotlight search index: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102321

	▲	saagarjha 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, Spotlight has just been broken for several years. Thankfully Tahoe seems to have improved it a bit for me.
	▲	nailer 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.