It looks like Elasticsearch is currently missing support for concurrent searching and that this is a major prospective optimization to reduce latency.

Digression: this is not the topic at hand but I personally consider the fork OpenSearch to be an historical tragedy of duplication of work and a segregation of improvements. What would be even more anti-utilitarist would be to blindly *ignore* each other advances towards making better search.

Lucene concurrent search APIs are probably among the most important feature/optimization currently not leveraged by Elasticsearch.
The fork OpenSearch has a [pull request](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/1500) implementing support for it.

See also the [corresponding issue](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/1286) 

I believe it would be great for end users if you could take inspiration from the PR and work on this feature.

Great blog about the Lucene feature:
https://blog.mikemccandless.com/2019/10/concurrent-query-execution-in-apache.html?m=1
See also those performance results:
https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2021/09/nrtsearch-yelps-fast-scalable-and-cost-effective-search-engine.html
test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/test/ESIntegTestCase.java
for (SearchHit hit : searchResponse.getHits().getHits()) {
                sb.append("\n-> _index: [").append(hit.getIndex()).append("] id [").append(hit.getId()).append("]");
            }
            logger.warn("{}", sb);
            fail(failMsg);
        }
    }
    /**
     * Restricts the given index to be allocated on <code>n</code> nodes using the allocation deciders.
     * Yet if the shards can't be allocated on any other node shards for this index will remain allocated on
     * more than <code>n</code> nodes.
     */
    public void allowNodes(String index, int n) {
        assert index != null;
        internalCluster().ensureAtLeastNumDataNodes(n);
        Settings.Builder builder = Settings.builder();
        if (n > 0) {
            getExcludeSettings(n, builder);
        }
        Settings build = builder.build();
        if (build.isEmpty() == false) {
            logger.debug("allowNodes: updating [{}]'s setting to [{}]", index, build.toDelimitedString(';'));
            updateIndexSettings(builder, index);
        }
    }
    /**
     * Ensures the cluster has a green state via the cluster health API. This method will also wait for relocations.
     * It is useful to ensure that all action on the cluster have finished and all shards that were currently relocating
     * are now allocated and started.
     */