Its been over a year of having a terrible experience with notes:

• Search index often incomplete or completely missing
• Slow syncing of notes between devices (sometimes 10+ minutes can pass)
• Terrible perf occasionally even on my M5 MacBook Pro with tons of ram
• Bugs with word formatting (lines getting stuck as title font)

Add on that the notes app data model is fairly closed off so its tricky to properly integrate with anything else.

I agree with many threads that appreciate the simplicity as well as the speed notes can be made with the Notes App. It is really nice that when you want to write notes you can just write. However the core of this app feels abandoned I need to move on. But to what?

The ones that make it simple to use seem to be less convincing when it comes to technical competence with sync/search/formatting/multimedia, the ones that seem competent in those areas seem to have more friction to use.