Currently, sharded $text queries almost always target all shards (i.e. scatter-gather), even if they are AND-related to a simple range scan on the shard key. Instead, $text queries should be targeted using the normal query targeting logic. Special-casing $text queries was previously necessary when planning $text queries on mongos was not allowed, but this restriction was relaxed in the implementation of SERVER-19510.

The query planner still cannot generate a plan for $text queries without a text index.