It's not unusual to need several hours of use to understand if a tool is right for you. I use Logseq and Obsidian, and without going to the forums and watching how the features are supposed to be used, I would have continued to use it like Notepad++, becuase out of the box, that's all it looks like it does.

true, i guess i phrased it a little bit wrong

i do understand it now, it's more like i don't have a use case for a graph structure to my documents/files, and since i sort of went exploring anytype while retaining the initial positioning of the app (p2p google documents), i was somewhat disappointed

It really is amazing how little competition Google docs has with free or open tools. I just want something that lets me write a never ending river of rich text documents. I don't want to write markdown source (by default), I don't want a "preview" as I type, etc.--I want WYSIWYG. I don't want to micromanage folders and hierarchies and classifications and tags and whatnot, I don't even want to think about storage or files. Just an app that instantly starts, lets me capture rich text, and search through documents. I've never found anything close to that outside Google docs and it's frustrating.

real

a libp2p based wysiwyg or even a plaintext app with p2p sync + works offline + encrypted + cross device sync + collaboration with other users would be invaluable

Google Docs being free probably has a lot to do with the lack of competition.

Would you need to manage page settings, like margins and tab stops, or are those things more than you need?

If it really is just a local-first, rich text editor with syncing, searchable documents that you need, there might be something on the horizon. But if you need a full blown document editor, that's a bit of a different story.

Anything more than formatted text and inline images changes the scope in pretty exponential ways.