New iTunes search help!:  I'd like to just start typing in the upper right search and have the list update like it did in older iTunes versions. Now it has little suggestions of WHAT IM NOT LOOKING FOR!

Remember the days when you were looking for that metallica song... you kind of knew the name... so you start typing it in the search, and that BIG WELL of music would whittle down with every character typed?  the search covered titles, artists, genres, ANYTHING  that was displaying.  I know a lot of folks HATED  this dynamic,  but let's face it, it worked, and it worked WELL.  And Apple's had us all get used to that dynamic for over a DECADE. 
I get that times need to move foreward,  but they went WAYYYYYYY too far with how the simple search box works now(upper right one) ... The columns of Title, Album, Artist, are still there, but they drastically change the layout and presentation with everything you search for... and newsflash, NOT  EVERY SONG BELONGS  TO A GENRE OR ALBUM OR ARTIST....
I'm the kind of guy that doesnt allow itunes to attempt to copy eveything into hundreds of folders.  I already have it all pretty well organized...Lots of my music are soundbytes that I just had in the main widow of iTunes. Sure they'd be buried in the thousands of other songs,  but with a click of a key I could get to it... now iTunes ONLY  seems to try searching things that are in albums, genres, labeled so specifically that I would have to take a month off JUST  to start catalogging my music the way iTunes wants... Even THEN  only showing me a small number of choices in the search bar .... like "Do you want these 4 songs you DIDNT  search in the invisible queue next?"  "Did you mean all this other sh*t that you DIDNT  search for?"  **** I used to be able to find almost ANY  song with like 3 keystrokes.  if I type in "Zelda"  ... (looking for that obscure live Zelda acoustic I recorded with my phone that I dont have the band name to)  It suggests EVERYTHING else BUT  that song... whereas before it would just list the 20 or so ANYTHINGS  I have loaded into itunes with that string of letters in it.
Anyone else seem to have this issue?  Is the OLD  easy to search buried in the furthest preference trenches to TRY  to weed out old dogs such as myself, who were able to master the crappy UI  iTunes has neglected to give a **** about in the past?

Please try the action I supplied in my post.
If you untick the search Entire library
Then type in your search term it will give the list of songs in the main window

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