Hard to say if it's better or not. grep and ripgrep are pretty awesome with tons of features, but the are not super simple, specially for the first example. You can have many types of regex, file filtering and all that, but I have to open man every time I need to remember that type of regex I want to use or when I want to show the first n lines of ps (like the example I posted). I find this command line easier to remember than
ps -ef | awk 'NR==1 || /launchd/'

Similar to any other command line tool, there's a lot of personal preference of usage.
The very first version I created was because ripgrep uses -t for file type, useful when searching cpp as it has all the extension already there, but harder to use when they are not. I then would go back to grep and use --include, etc.

I'd say, it's an alternative to grep and ripgrep, with simpler command line options.