Follow-up from "Search plain text in alert list frontend"

The following discussion from !34631 (merged) should be addressed:

• @oregand started a discussion:

  question (non-blocking)

  Should there be a state where the search is considered disabled? I.e. there are no Alerts in the initial request?

  I often find as a user myself it can be strange to have a search enabled when there won't ever be any results returned, WDYT?