oh awesome, thanks! Now if only there was a way to also make it default to searching for filenames instead of text contents.

That feature exists as well. Press ⌃⇧⌘F in the Finder to activate File > “Find by Name…”.

You could even swap the key bindings to make it the default, by going to System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts.

I do this to swap the shortcuts Reply and Reply All in Mail.app as well, so that I always reply everyone when pressing ⌘R.

See https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2271/mac

I didn’t know this was a feature. No matter how many modifier keys I press with the File menu open, “Find” never changes to “Find by name”. (Searching the menu options through the Help menu does find the function, though.) Wonder why? (Edit: Never mind, BetterTouchTool was blocking it somehow!)