I completely agree. While receiving service support, I voiced this exact same issue. The person who was providing me with the support for my issue agreed and also revealed that this is a complaint filed by many users.
What's the problem? Why don't you use the Search function in NIPM? You know, the one that takes you to one of 5 or 6 (who's counting?) different NI Sites where you still can't find the object of your search (because you chose the wrong "bag to look in"? I worry that if NI keeps "improving" much more, we're all in trouble ...
Bob Schor (hmm, where do I give a bunch of Kudos?)
Hopefully NI actually pays attention to the fact that this idea has been out for 1 week and already has 3x more kudos than the next most popular NIPM Idea (which has been around for just under a year). Now if only we could count the number of kudos people actually want to give it...
There are only two ways to tell somebody thanks: Kudos and Marked Solutions Unofficial Forum Rules and Guidelines "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God" - 2 Corinthians 3:5
This idea has been implemented in NIPM 20.7. See this post for more details:
https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Package-Manager-NIPM/New-20-7-release-of-NI-Package-Manager/m-p/4141857