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
server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/SearchService.java
}
        }
        if (source.ext() != null) {
            for (SearchExtBuilder searchExtBuilder : source.ext()) {
                context.addSearchExt(searchExtBuilder);
            }
        }
        if (source.version() != null) {
            context.version(source.version());
        }
        if (source.seqNoAndPrimaryTerm() != null) {
            context.seqNoAndPrimaryTerm(source.seqNoAndPrimaryTerm());
        }
        if (source.stats() != null) {
            context.groupStats(source.stats());
        }
        if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(source.searchAfter()) == false) {
            if (context.scrollContext() != null) {
                throw new SearchException(shardTarget, "`search_after` cannot be used in a scroll context.");
            }
            if (context.from() > 0) {
                throw new SearchException(shardTarget, "`from` parameter must be set to 0 when `search_after` is used.");
            }
            String collapseField = source.collapse() != null ? source.collapse().getField() : null;
            FieldDoc fieldDoc = SearchAfterBuilder.buildFieldDoc(context.sort(), source.searchAfter(), collapseField);
            context.searchAfter(fieldDoc);
        }
        if (source.slice() != null) {
            if (source.pointInTimeBuilder() == null && context.scrollContext() == null) {
                throw new SearchException(shardTarget, "[slice] can only be used with [scroll] or [point-in-time] requests");