Thread:Talk:Search/LiquidThreads archive/'Old search' is better/reply (17)

They did not "intentionally disregard" the feature, they just have not spent time developing it from scratch; but you were told they will now. Also consider this weighing is not a search backend standard, it's not even valid for many MediaWikis including Wikimedia wikis (specifically, in order of traffic: Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource and Wikibooks).

This system of prioritisation makes sense to me: it would have been worse if they had tried to reimplement every single feature and customisation of the old custom search moloch, even unrequested. We would have wasted lots of developer time and ended up with another unmaintainable system which would receive no love for the next 5 years.