Over and over again, I’d type my prompt, then realize I forgot to specify. So I’d have to either delete what I’d just typed, put Raycast into the proper mode, and then retype it; or spend time fiddling with the mouse or arrow keys to move to the proper prompt in the list after the fact. Admittedly, Alfred’s way can backfire. You might mean to do a Google search, but Alfred might find some random file on your machine that matches your query.
same here. Including the backfiring part: my impression is that I often end up opening some unrelated file instead of doing a search is because Alfred is to slow to update the results. If I wait just half a second before hitting enter, the search fallback will be at the top of the results and work as intended.