My search issues are because I primarly use BBEdit for xhtml editing and Sigil only for all else. Such I mentioned in my original message plus such is why I mentioned that Sigil might not around forever and some may use other editors either current or future.
I'm not necessarily arguing against making EPUBs more universally searchable. I am no expert but it just seems that the issue is more complicated than it seems.
Thus I think a preference to control this, plus commands to convert text, or maybe also automatically convert pasted text seem better.
As far if demand warrants, I am not sure but it just seems use cases of potential normalization problems seem mentioned around the web, and having enough users that use Sigil and will run into such, seems rare and might not happen for a while. But I suspect that it seems better to just leave text alone by default and have commands and preferences for normalization if someone wants. Is it useful to have some setting to have some character combinations excluded from automatic normalization?
For non-Western languages it seems there is some tendency of opinion that normalization issues are complicated though I haven't thoroughly read through such.
Your original thought I think still remains better:
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maybe just do what everyone else seems to be doing (except for Kovid) and just punt and allow NFD text mixed with NFC text.
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Yes I'll continue using the older Sigil.