Mindoo - The pain of reading data as a Domino developer - and solutions

On my endless path of reinventing the wheel regarding Domino APIs, my latest adventure has once again led me to find efficient and powerful ways to query Domino data. For many years, this topic has been a pain point for me. Back in the IBM Design Partner program, I wrote many entries in the discussions database, asking IBM core development for better and faster ways to read Domino data.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.mindoo.de/web/blog.nsf/dx/19.06.2024110207KLECLW.htm