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
}
    }
    /**
     * Opens the reader context for given shardId. The newly opened reader context will be keep
     * until the {@code keepAlive} elapsed unless it is manually released.
     */
    public void openReaderContext(ShardId shardId, TimeValue keepAlive, ActionListener<ShardSearchContextId> listener) {
        checkKeepAliveLimit(keepAlive.millis());
        final IndexService indexService = indicesService.indexServiceSafe(shardId.getIndex());
        final IndexShard shard = indexService.getShard(shardId.id());
        final SearchOperationListener searchOperationListener = shard.getSearchOperationListener();
        shard.ensureShardSearchActive(ignored -> {
            Engine.SearcherSupplier searcherSupplier = null;
            ReaderContext readerContext = null;
            try {
                searcherSupplier = shard.acquireSearcherSupplier();
                final ShardSearchContextId id = new ShardSearchContextId(
                    sessionId,
                    idGenerator.incrementAndGet(),
                    searcherSupplier.getSearcherId()
                );
                readerContext = new ReaderContext(id, indexService, shard, searcherSupplier, keepAlive.millis(), false);
                final ReaderContext finalReaderContext = readerContext;
                searcherSupplier = null; 
                searchOperationListener.onNewReaderContext(readerContext);
                readerContext.addOnClose(() -> searchOperationListener.onFreeReaderContext(finalReaderContext));
                putReaderContext(readerContext);
                readerContext = null;
                listener.onResponse(finalReaderContext.id());
            } catch (Exception exc) {