There is use case for quick increase of maximum volume and I use it a lot, for quiet youtube videos.
I just checked, and "new" way is same amount of clicks away so I wouldn't oppose it too much. Still, personally old way feels more intuitive.

Is this information really that cluttering to mandate removal? Sure, vendor and model may be too "advanced" but remaining capacity is an useful hint.
I always liked this sort of stuff when coming from Windows.

As a person who opened https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391677 I would like to note that it is not in fact a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384798
My reasoning for opening that bug was because baloo is sometimes very unreliable at finding anything on my machine. And thanks to solid state drives there is no issue of waiting for spinning rust so lack of indexing is not an issue, also you could argue that indexing is a privacy risk.

It seems like it landed on October 28th. I will close it now. Thanks for help folks.

Do I need to do anything or is it going to be merged for next release automatically? Apologies, haven't used phabricator before.