Before 2.8, I believe all you had to type was “col”, press enter and you’d get the ColorRamp. Now instead you get Vertex Color. ColorRamp is used far more frequently than Vertex Color, so it makes no sense that Vertex Color is at the top.
So make it so that ColorRamp is the first choice when after pressing Shift-A and searching for it in the node editor, so you don’t have to move your mouse over the choice or having to type it out over half the word.