From my perspective, Evernote has gotten consistently worse over the past few years (some of this is due to the core product not scaling as people put more notes in - the search craps out and the organization sucks):
* No way to easily exclude say web clippings from search; in general the search results are inadequate (and doesn't factor in recency or frequency appropriately) of cache things intelligently - this effectively makes Evernote a PITA for anything but write-only usage
* Rather than helping people categorize things, they've made it progressively harder by making Notebook organization clunkier. I never got into using tags because it didn't make very good suggestions, and there's no hierarchy. With dysfunctional search, in the end it's all just a "pile."
* The original appeal of Evernote was seamless syncing across all platforms, but I'm almost entirely on Linux these days and there's no official client or good alternative, and the web interface is awful. That pretty much killed my usage for good, but every time I launch the iOS app, it seems to launch slower. There's way too much friction for creating notes.
I'll probably be exporting and cleaning house sometime soon. While the web clipper is great, I can probably find a better alternative (or just switch to Zotero for everything, as it does fine page snapshotting and the collections/subcollections largely work like you'd want). The OCR is probably the nicest thing I'd miss, but besides occasionally scanning some receipts or other papers, I'm not sure there's anything else I use it for. Also, their security/privacy updates from last year also made me hold my nose.
There are some neat open source projects that have started up recently, but I'm also starting to think about my notes and research in a more long term view (keeping and syncing, but also publishing).
Simple things like not being able to put different colors on text in the same block or even just putting a simple table (no not a database) into a block have put me off it. Also it is difficulty (re: impossible) to copy and paste notes over from another application without it getting all messed up.
And it does really the few things that I most care about:
* Seamlessly syncs/accessible on all my devices (I wish it did better offline access though)
* Has a rich, modern WYSIWYG editor (w/ markdown shortcuts, supports attachments and different types of embeds, comments/etc)
* Has a tree hierarchy on the left - I would prefer faceted nested collections (you can't put a note in two folders), but it's much more effective than single-pane organization like GDocs or Dropbox Paper
I've used a few the tables a bit and it's pretty rudimentary - if you don't need the organization, from what you've outlined, honestly it sounds like GDocs still might be what you need (I've always had a lot of GSheets I link out to from my notes - sucks it's not all in one place, but for notetaking, I think the more important thing is that I have a way to organize/find pointers to things, which GDocs completely fails at).
Simple things just as being able to highlight multiple words to change fonts or even have auto capitalization not have a toggle.
The only thing I did like was the ability to repeat the last command you took but that shouldn't have to exist for stuff like changing fonts of certain words one at a time.
I do miss the desktop version of onenote as that had a lot more features that I was hoping to find on the windows 10 app version.
I used to use evernote but have since switched over to vimwiki. Like you, I did not find OneNote better than evernote.
LOL. You haven't used Org-mode.
Having said that, I can see skepticism surrounding the app based on erratic updates they've been shipping for a while now.
The app has been ruined by :
- Wildly Inconsistent UI (Windows app > MacOS)
- Switch to table layout (monster margins look ugly and quite frankly, unbearable)
- Uncertain updates (more often than not it'll break an existing feature)
Few months ago, I mistakenly updated the Mac app and it was such a painful experience, I had to dig into archives and reinstall 2016 version to restore some sanity. As someone who is heavily dependent on the app, these changes have been frustrating. I'll be jumping ship the moment a viable alternative appears.