I assume one just has to "deal" with this, but if you put a label on a number or list object then you cannot use Find... to locate all the places the variable occurs. This is frustrating, but I guess it is just the way it is.

Right?

@raynovich I am not sure if this might help your situation but the concept sounds similar. I was reading the op from this thread:
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14112/mimba-physical-modelling-synth

Once somebody had posted a problem about trying to figure out an error produced by the patch and posted a screenshot, I wondered if I could find the problem by searching through the Pd files used using a text-based search. If you read through the thread, you will see the context of the discussion. But you will probably have to become familiar with how Pd's text-based representation relates to the GUI.

It is not a wholly GUI based solution.