This was mostly solved in Search 6:

• The main entry point for users is now mapping-specific; for Hibernate ORM mappings it is org.hibernate.search.v6poc.entity.orm.mapping.HibernateOrmMapping.
• Low-level APIs are available in SearchMappingRepository

But we may want to revisit this:

1. SearchMappingRepository is not a good name anymore, since the class now also enables access to the backends.
2. I am not sure ORM users can access the SearchMappingRepository from the APIs in the hibernate-search-orm module.

Note that SearchMappingRepository and mappings must remain separated, because one Search instance may host multiple mappings (see the technical documentation).