Interesting, I'm of the first kind, who uninstalled it quickly.
I use ctrl-r a lot, though I have no issue remembering exact portions of the commands, but that may just be me.
I'll give it another try.
In the same vein as ripgrep (rg), I recommand the author (and everybody else) to give fd-find (fd) a try as a replacement to find. It's much, much faster (multithreaded search), and has better defaults to use from the shell (doesn't complain about these permissions issues, and `fd abc` is equivalent to `find. -iname 'abc'`.
A few comments here mention it already, but I wanted to recommend it.