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I've mostly ignored complaints about discoverability because my problem is reading a significant fraction of the books I've "discovered" (by hearing about). Most people read faster than me and haven't lost decades of only reading a very few books so I haven't commented.
However, I frequently encounter a big problem of findability or searchability, where tiny errors in the title do not result in the correct book showing up in the results although dozens of unrelated and apparently unsponsored books do. This also happens for general catalog searches at my local library, where the catalog search provider has changed several times in recent years. The first such change was much worse overall, but search results were much better. Every change since then has made the search results worse.
On amazon, when the title is way too long or I am not sure about some of the words because of homophones or lack of enunciation or rapid/quiet speaking on the radio, I search on author. That
usually helps, although getting the author right can also be difficult. But even then, amazon manages to fail to come up with the on sale edition or the book is multiple pages down after many books by other authors.
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