I agree, and it's part of the heavyweight interfaces of a lot of these modern tools. For example, search is my primary cursor motion command in Emacs, because it's incredibly lightweight and typically faster than any other cursor move command. Whereas invoking search in many programs from word to IntelliJ will move the cursor and focus away from where you're working to some widget elsewhere, and often requires a confirmation to perform.

Incremental search is finally appearing in some browsers, bringing them into the 70s. But just as software itself has seemingly gotten slower as the machines have sped up, I feel like the interfaces have gotten significantly more cumbersome.