PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE.
This is the sole reason I have not adopted Evernote, even though I have attempted to use it multiple times over recent years.
I have wasted hours trying to use it the way Evernote wants me to, trying to design tags, trying to label folders in such a way as to tier them. I have spent hours researching other people's hacks to make Evernote do something like this; and trying to find plug-ins or shells that might do it. I have tried (and failed) to use Evernote in conjunction with MS OneNote and with several task managers like Asana, ToDoist, etc. I have tried tools that port from Evernote to another app including TaskClone and IFTTT. Nothing has worked for me.
Evernote needs infinitely nested notebooks and infinitely nested folders. No two ways about it.