No, it doesn’t because there isn't a problem to begin with.
Sigh. This is just false… there have been multiple reports of Spotlight issues cropping up reported over past releases of macOS… none of which have been specifically remediated or disclosed. Considering that Spotlight index corruption has been a
known significant issue for years, sometimes getting officially “resolved” and sometimes not even being acknowledged, to imply that Spotlight issues are all in a user’s head is asinine. Database corruption is less likely caused by cosmic rays and much more likely due to stupid bugs in faulty data scanners, and Spotlight has proven that Apple can surely make really stupid coding errors.
If spotlight is laggy on your system then you need to troubleshoot it instead of waiting for Apple to fix something that doesn’t need fixing.
Then you go on to tell the user to “troubleshoot” the issue … but provide NO INSTRUCTION how to do that! Instead, you provide instructions on how to completely nuke the Spotlight indexes and pray whatever triggered the index corruption doesn’t trigger it again. “Bang your head against the wall harder and more frequently, maybe that will resolve your headache!” I’m guessing you didn’t provide “troubleshooting” steps because there AREN’T any, which is 99% of the problem with these Spotlight issues from the start. Apple is so consumed by hubris that they’ve deigned to not provide any sensible tools to elucidate what’s going on within Spotlight when it starts malfunctioning.
I’ve worked over half-a-dozen Spotlight issues with Apple over the years, and I can testify that problems almost always won’t get fully resolved with minor macOS versions. So… if you’re experiencing Spotlight performance issues or indexing failures, don’t expect it to get better until October. And if it doesn’t get better then, you’ll likely be waiting another year. Welcome to Spotlight, can be combative.
