Default curation filter makes it seem like very few patterns exist

[threadi]

It's about: https://wordpress.org/patterns/

There you can see that there are currently 1,964 patterns.

If you enter "404" as a search term, as shown in https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/personalizing-your-404-template/, there are no hits.

I also notice that despite the 1964 patterns, only 2 pages of patterns are displayed. There is no third page at all.

[ryelle]

The default filter is to only show curated patterns, and there are 55 of those (2 pages). It was decided in #580 to default the patterns to the curated view. There are 1964 patterns total, which you can see if you update the filter to "All"

[threadi]

I see. For me as a user (as well as apparently others), this filter is apparently not conscious. I also noticed the following problem:

1. Call this URL: https://wordpress.org/patterns/
2. Set the filter from Curated to All and click on “Apply”, URL then: https://wordpress.org/patterns/?curation=all
3. Now search for “404”. Result: 0 results as the filter is set to Curated again. URL: https://wordpress.org/patterns/?s=404
4. Only when I now set the filter again from Curated to All and click on Apply I do see results.

I think this is not necessarily optimal in terms of handling. I understand if there are users who despair about the filtering.

Is there any chance of optimization?