This. You have to go through several steps to get to them. Could have been implemented a bit better.
I think Nintendo is trying really really really really hard not to make significant UX and flow changes to Switch OS. They seem to understand people want something, but until they can figure out how to do it with the least amount of changes to the codebase and designs they will wait and wait.
Clearly they are not stupid and they know this is not what people wanted folders to be, but they are throwing people a bone in a separate screen evolving an independent filtering feature that is not affecting the rest of the OS.
It could be a chapter in a “working with legacy codebases” book if Switch OS were not supposed to be new(ish). Then again we are still giving them excuses for a super minimalistic UI / OS feature set as if it were the only way to make a snappy OS with the CPU and RAM available to them (including 720p UI when docked
).