There's this thing Spotlight does where you press cmd+space, type two letters, and then wait. Not a long wait. But you can feel it. And once you've felt it enough times you stop trusting it for quick lookups. You reach for the trackpad instead, or you remember you have iTerm open already, or you just don't bother.
That little gap between thinking and seeing is the entire reason Raycast exists, and Alfred before it, and now Brow.
I assumed for a long time that the gap was hardware. It isn't. M-series Macs are absurdly fast. The gap is architectural: most launchers wait for the slowest provider before they paint anything. If your file index provider is having a bad morning, the whole UI sits there with you.
So Brow doesn't wait.
Three tiers, three deadlines
