I think it would be quite possible to implement showing search results right in this plugin without requiring installing another plugin (that also overwrites n mappings). The only requirements I could imagine to do this would be plenary.nvim for async stuff (a plugin most people should have installed anyway, since a lot of plugins require it including telescope) and an external search program, preferably ripgrep but grep should do.

An example implementation could be how todo-comments.nvim does it: https://github.com/folke/todo-comments.nvim/blob/main/lua/todo-comments/search.lua

One could then use the / register to get the last searched pattern. Since this works asynchronously and potentially uses rg it should be reasonably fast without touching the native search functionality.