This is the reason I will never pay a subscription for Evernote. We keep getting new features nobody was asking for that keep breaking previous workflows.
This new search layout is terrible, if you mistyped something and are used to double click on what you type to select it all and type again from scratch, you will now keep double clicking on the line that says 'Select Mode'. Even though I selected standard mode and have no intention to use this AI thing.
It would have been so much better to actually improve the existing search by using caches. I search for my signature template about 15 times a day in average, and sometimes it takes 10 seconds+ to display the result, even after the whole day doing the same search.