I've only seen this issue when brew upgrades from an existing Emacs install (it's why Emacs plus recommended uninstall Emacs then install).

Ah interesting mm maybe I had it already installed

Ok I can try again

==> Caveats
 was installed to:
  /opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@29

To link the application to default Homebrew App location:
  osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to make alias file to posix file "/opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@29/Emacs.app" at POSIX file "/Applications" with properties {name:""}'

actually I noticed this

so it doesn't do it on purpose

with some distro I got some problem such that /Applications/Emacs.app doesn't properly show up in Spotlight, so I end up typing open /Applications/Emacs.app every time (which is just op <up> <ret> with a decent zshrc)

I just use the classic Linux command for a symbolic link, which seems to work just as well (and I can use tab completion for the path to minimise typing)

ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@29/Emacs.app /Applications/Emacs.app

alfred still won't find it even if symlinked, ime, so I had to make an automator app launcher for it

Alfred picks up aliases properly, so I use the mkalias tool to create an alias in a folder Alfred already indexes: https://github.com/reckenrode/mkalias

https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/3897-index-kmditemalternatenames-attribute/

apparently this is the best solution, haven't tried yet

but in theory alfred started supporting that a long time ago

yeah ok I tried that but it does not have native compilation\

and emacs-plus seems better overall anway