Sorry, bad attempt at a joke there.

If the search had been working well, I can guarantee there would have been no effort to change it. In point of fact, Search hadn't been working well for quite some time as FlyerTalk basically outgrew the built-in vBulletin search capabilities, and therefore required modifications. The thing is, the previous problems with Search didn't always present themselves in a way that made it obvious to members that Search was the culprit.

What would happen is, members would use the search feature and get their results, but because of the way the results were generated, the load time of the entire site was being dragged to a crawl. So essentially, even though search seemed to work well for members who were using it (although that wasn't always the case either), all of the other members who were browsing were wondering why every page on FT was taking upwards of 30 seconds to load, if the page loaded at all.

I hope this helps clarify why modifications to Search were deemed high priority, and why immediate action in some form needed to be taken, even though it has resulted in other Search issues along the way.