commented:
Raycast is fine if you disable all the AI stuff.
These are the things I mostly use (which is really a fraction of what
Raycast would like you to use):

Github and Notion search are very convenient to have at your
fingertips
Snippets

Clipboard history (I moved to a specialised app Maccy for this)
Lock screen
Run Cleanshot commands
Quicklinks since safari won't support those, i.e. "tr Bear" goes to
Trakt
The occasional application launching and calculator


  commented:
I used Alfred for a long time because Spotlight was slow. Now that
Spotlight isn’t slow anymore, I use Spotlight.
Simple reason, every time I try one of those fancy launchers, I notice
the same thing: I don’t use their features. At all. After a few
minutes of tinkering, I go back to just using my Mac, and I completely
forget the launcher can do more than launch apps, simple calculations
and web search.

  commented:
The problem for me is that Spotlight do not allow extensions. This is
important for me as for example Spotlight for long time didn't fully
support currency conversion for my dominant currency, and I use it
quite often. If Spotlight would provide extensions API, then I would
probably never think about using Raycast.
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