It has always been the Cadillac of search, and moreso with unstructured indexing (e.g. key collisions with different data structures. Foo = string vs foo = integer vs foo = array).
Your queries or infrastructure were not optimized. It’s very fast when optimized.
Nope, sports betting. I was on the operations side of things and Splunk was something the corporate side organised and championed, but it just couldn't be used to troubleshoot issues in the time frames we needed.