These are exactly the things I find better and faster in Emacs. Watch video below and imagine searching that way but for all files in your project. Results in real-time, instantly taken to content when you highlight and browse results with arrow keys or further narrow down by typing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfasCCuCEgM

IMO VSCode's ctrl-shift-f doesn't come close. And its symbol search is just for symbols, not all text.