I agree, especially if the focus is not on the command itself but the date. Atuin has a CLI switch for filtering command history by date, but I don't see any support in the ctrl-r UI eg. with an operator like "before:" or similar.
In my own case large clumps of similar commands hinge upon what was the CD <current directory> at the time ... and the command most likely in many cases to be scrubbed as duplicate is a cd <one of 50 common working base directories>.
This leads to "I can see I tidied up a bunch of project files first monday of last month ... but which project was that??"
