I understand that it’s contradictory, but I can’t find the right wording to indicate that by default it should display the current year, but that if I use my filter to filter the previous year, for example, it displays data for 2024.
Oooooh! You want the filter pre-filled with the current year but the user may choose to change it. OK, that makes sense.
The challenge you have is that there’s no way to pre-fill the built-in search & filter feature. To get what you want, you’ll have to implement your own filter feature. These search results should give you some ideas on how to do this.