Extended Find
I discovered the 'Use extended find when possible' option was enabled when we disabled 'Map object names automatically' feature was disabled. We don't want object automatically mapped due to merging issues. We now have nodes with similar objects and differing aliases which is causing all sorts of find object issues. I said all that to ask the question - Is it better to not use 'Extended Find' if you want to explicitly associate objects within the hierrarcy? I'm almost to the point of starting over but the project has thousands of mapped objects. Are most out there using 'extended find'?
I tend not to use it.
But thats because I prefer to know if ANYTHING changes in an application so I can check with the developers if it's intentional.
I also do all my mapping manually and VERY carefully. (Ditto the Alias map - which should be much smaller, and much more human-readable than the full name map.)
Takes more time up front, but pays off in the long run.