Can confirm, I'd be one of these people. The amount of time that I spend trying to configure UIs instead of working within the Big Data pipeline is wild. This would probably save me about 20% of my current workload right off the bat if it was ported over to Solr.
But...do you think you might ever write an adaptor for people to use them with Apache Solr, rather than ElasticSearch? makes puppydog eyes