Hi  @RF_Dude 

Hello, thank you for posting on the TP-Link community, and we certainly appreciate all your feedback and feature requests here. While we don't have any specific details that I can share around if the feature can come to the controller, or when it might, I'll make sure to log this feature request and pass it along to the team.
Feel free to let us know of any other feature requests you may have, we’d be happy to send them up for you.

  @Vincent-TP Thanks for this tip.  It isn't straightforward, and is an extra step.  

I confirmed that it works in your new controller release.  The previous Wildcard search (Type, Level, or Content) has been replaced with displayed COLUMN specific search.  Since default column displays are minimal for a narrower screen, additional columns to be included in the search require deliberate action to select via checkbox.  I guess there was a need to restrict search to a column for a faster user experience?  Or to allow for culling to a TYPE of error/warning/status?  

1. In the right side ACTION three dots, change from default columns to either ALL or reduce to CUSTOM columns with checkboxed searchable columns.  
2. Clicking on EXPAND, the search form is revealed. 
3. Any info in any search box can cull the data out of the displayed columns.    Columns not displayed are not considered.  

This does work.  An extra step is required.  Not as intuitive as the previous method.  Thank you Vincent for the assistance.  

RF Dude