To understand: I guess you could use match and a regex with a star (*) to do the same thing, right?

match is usually exploited for just matching a string into another

Ah, I see, the key difference is that in a match I have to use capturing groups in the request, whereas here capturing (to return the results) is always done implicitly, I just have to pass a normal regex. Correct?
If so, I think we're good to go.