Make the help feature better

...by which I mean:
FASTER - in the olden days of CS3, I could click on help, type in a query, press return and have the answer right there in a few seconds. Now the help system has grown so ridiculously bloated that it takes about a minute just to load up! By which time I've just opened Firefox and Googled the answer there.
EASIER - For example, I want to 'fill' an area. I load up the help system...yawn...turn off all the 'online' options, do a search for 'fill'. It comes back with "1. Select the Live Paint Bucket Tool". OK. Where is this live paint bucket tool? Would it kill Adobe to change this to  "1. Select the Live Paint Bucket Tool. It's hiding behind the shape builder tool about halfway down the toolbar". It would save me having to click and expand every single toolbar item, looking for the thing.
And talking of the toolbar, ever since about CS, I have hated the way the tools are in pop-out menu thingies - nearly all pro CS+ users have big monitors, which are more than capabale of displaying all the pop-out tools in a nice long vertical column. This would make finding and accessing the tools far faster.

So there's no apparent way to rotate a gradient in Illustrator, so I searched for "gradient" in the help.  The word "gradient" WASN'T FOUND IN THE HELP.
Look at this:
Can this product get any worse?

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