I'm not as deep in the NLP space as some people so maybe neural text search really did improve a lot the past few years but when I was more involved it was not really as successful as it should have been given all the hype at the time. (Probably it's still not, but may be a marginal improvement despite it being an obvious cash grab for a private contractor somewhere.)

TBH I mostly responded because I am really curious about your username: what inspired it? TOoCitBotBM (if you can parse that) was a foundational book for me in my mental model of the world I live in.