Notepad may look the same, but it has seen some small feature updates in Windows 10. The biggest: it finally understands Unix-style line feed only (\n) files.

That’s why I said this has been an issue for decades.

Multiple people have mentioned it, and you're not responding to it: There is WordPad, separate from Notepad, that seems to be what you're looking for.

Wordpad is a completely different thing, it’s a basic word processor. I’d be quite happy with a slightly better text editor, though as I pointed out Notepad has improved recently and isn’t far off a reasonable set of basic features.

Have you ever used WordPad? WordPad is a lightweight "word processor" not a text editor. It is not really an option.

WordPad isn't a text editor, it's a "Word Processor".