Now you exactly now the place where I am in .

Yes, you elaborated it very accurate, thanks, and thanks for the fast replies so far!

I already started to investigate possibility of 2. option you suggested in the meantime, since it make most sense to me. Hopefully most of the people familiar with Elastichsearch would want to create query above in a way that they would nest must, must_not, filter under separate bool query which would be siblings of shoulds in the filter, and not make it siblings of it...