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> PS: Yes, this stuff can be annoying: " It wasn't installed by default until now due to performance concerns, but those issues seem to have been resolved."

Even more annoying if by "solved" they mean "everybody has SSDs now so we don't care". Windows 10 does that and it can become extremely painful to use on old spinning disks. I've seen machines where average seek times go over 1 second because Windows won't leave the damn disk alone after a few updates.

Unfortunate name

Isn't the KDE equivalent named Baloo?

Yes.

https://community.kde.org/Baloo

Yes, and it is annoying.

For finding stuff I use recoll. Not sure if baloo has also other uses.

Its not that annoying because you can go into the Search settings page of system settings (or just search for "search" in any of the various launchers) and turn it off with a checkbox.