Why do I have to physically enter a folder through Bridge, before Bridge will read keyword metadata

I am a DAM specialist, and trying to figure out a temporary workflow for our designers. I'm currently using photo mechanic 5 to enter batches of metadata to files, then seeing if the keyworded terms are easily findable via Bridge. It's SUPER frustrating, that the user has to PHYSICALLY go into each sub folder in Bridge before the keyword data will populate search items when searching a larger folder. This sort of defeats the purpose of searching a directory doesn't it? It seems as though I could not rely on Bridge to be a good way for a group of designers to search large directories of files I've taken the time to label. Am I wrong?

this is the main barrier for using it more. The data is not read in real time.
I agree on your slow statement in general although using a fast system with SSD speeds things up. However you have  a wrong idea on the indexing and caching part.
Bridge is working at its best in a single user environment and assuming your designer have a user account on their system this is where Bridge stores its cache. Normally you need to cache the files only once (sometimes when in trouble you need to purge or dump the cache), the newest files also need to be cached but this is automatically done when pointing to the folder. Indexing also is needed once per file and yes, on slow systems with large files this can take a while. 
An other option is to let the users point to to the main folder and select menu view, view items from subfolders and ideally let it run overnight to cache the lot once totally, after this things will go faster.
But as said, Bridge is not the ideal DAM application...

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