Item Saved Search to pull Price Changes via System Notes. Sadly, all NetSuite will return is View/View links. Outside of scripting a solution, is there anything I am missing here to facilitate this with some sort of search/report?

If you need it in NS UI I am not entirely sure on best approach - maybe analytics wb? I have seen this done via e.g. ODBC to excel before. (there is some SA on that but eludes me which one) - if you use the free effective date pricing bundle all these changes/updates end up in their own custom records, maybe something to consider, bundle 222420

Interesting bundle, but I imagine you need to utilize it, in order to have the custom record of previous price?

yes, sadly, I have actually never 'migrated' historical data as part of implementing it so not sure its even doable without a lot of effort, I think you need to consider it just going forward.