Hitting the home button while on the home page brings it up too. I never use the search anyways because I have everything on my home page. I don't have thousands of apps on my phone to justify it.
It's really silly to judge others based on what they find useful and valuable, even if you do not. I found spotlight very easy inadvertently to activate when either swiping left from other pages or by clicking the home button at the home screen. My phone was already jailbroken, but I think if it had not been I would have jailbroken it just to disable spotlight.