Inkscape has many good features but also many rough edges. Fixing the command palette (shortcut key ?) would go a long way. On Windows it takes around 5 seconds for the palette search box to appear after a clean start of Inkscape 1.4.4. Typing is lagging and results are wildly irrelevant. That's a shame because Inkscape has so many powerful features tucked away in menus and side panes. A well working command palette makes it quick and easy for the user to use tools without exploring menu hierarchies or memorizing keyboard shortcuts.

For example if I type "rectangle" in Inkscape command palette I would expect the draw rectangle tool as a top match. Instead the top matches are:

  Create a Slicer Rectangle
  Create a Slicer Rectangle (No preferences)
  Triangle (No preferences)
  Clone original path (LPE)
  Lightness-Contrast (No preferences)
  Refractive Glass (No preferences)
  Refractive Gel A (No preferences)

There are dozens of more matches in the scrollable list but the draw rectangle tool does not appear to be one of them.

There have been several issue tracker issues about the command palette. Here is one from 2022 and still ongoing about the slow start https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/work_items/3227