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
bigArrays,
                    scriptService,
                    isCanceled,
                    aggs,
                    multiBucketConsumerService.create()
                );
            }
        };
    }
    /**
     * This helper class ensures we only execute either the success or the failure path for {@link SearchOperationListener}.
     * This is crucial for some implementations like {@link org.elasticsearch.index.search.stats.ShardSearchStats}.
     */
    private static final class SearchOperationListenerExecutor implements AutoCloseable {
        private final SearchOperationListener listener;
        private final SearchContext context;
        private final long time;
        private final boolean fetch;
        private long afterQueryTime = -1;
        private boolean closed = false;
        SearchOperationListenerExecutor(SearchContext context) {
            this(context, false, System.nanoTime());
        }
        SearchOperationListenerExecutor(SearchContext context, boolean fetch, long startTime) {
            this.listener = context.indexShard().getSearchOperationListener();
            this.context = context;
            time = startTime;
            this.fetch = fetch;
            if (fetch) {
                listener.onPreFetchPhase(context);