Are you planning on hand-implementing any of the features he's vibe-coded? The search functionality in particular seems like a basic consideration.

Of course. We have many big items on our roadmap[0], and just recently in our latest minor[1] we released a new search query API and the first piece of many sharing improvements.

[0]: https://immich.app/roadmap [1]: https://immich.app/blog/v3.2.0-release