User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-4476879-20120503191427

To be honest, I'm really not all that worked up about this anymore. There are lots of other ways to go directly to a page and it's kind of helpful to be able to quickly search directly for a term, such as when you've added a new page and you want to find every page that references it so that you can create links (because people didn't think to link to the term when they created those pages.)

I can understand the irritation, but I can't see getting worked up enough about this particular change to leave.

And again, as for the other problems related to redirects and special pages, etc., those are bugs and are being dealt with, so it's not like those issues are permanent.