Nedric said:
Forgive me if I don't think that "just stop wanting to be able to properly use the site" is particularly good advice.
Those features aren't supposed to be locked behind builder though, since gold is supposed to be an option.
Well the owner doesn’t owe you anything. My suggestion would be to use tbib.org or Gelbooru to preform your complicated searches, they scrape Danbooru and have no tag limitations.