meta: please use the original title in submissions, especially if the original title contains more information than your edited one: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

article: "dumbing down" of search features seems to be a common pattern sadly. Especially for cases where it triggers notifications, like saved search on e.g. EBay, good filtering is great to find the interesting stuff. But apparently to few people use it to support it? Or is it a scale thing, complex queries being noticably more expensive to execute?