I am furious.
I have used Evernote for over a decade, almost since the initial release.
I have been a paying premium member almost continuously for as long as the premium has been available.
I was recently "upgraded" to version 10. This version of the client is a massive downgrade in features and performance. The lack of a local sync seems like one of the most massive blunders imaginable. Local sync was one of the very reasons I chose Evernote in the first place. Opening a notebook, something that is supposed to be a digital facsimile of the paper equivalent, only to be locked out of the note I need while a spinner displays is a massively downgraded experience. I wouldn't get a spinner on a paper note and I'd like not to have one on a locally created and managed note either.
I always accepted that when I installed the client on a new machine there would be a period where my notebooks would need to be sync'd. That's the same as cloning my repositories from git onto that machine or syncing file from an online box storage service. It makes sense.
What does not make sense is going to open a technical notebook I reference daily, a notebook I have maintained locally on my development machine for years, and finding the client locked up, waiting for a spinner to resolve before I can even begin scrolling to the relevant section of the note.
This whole "unification" of clients, bringing the lowest common denominator to all platforms seems like a way for Evernote to save money and development cost at the expense of their userbase. I'm sorry if your internal software architecture and multi-platform development strategy made feature management and development expensive and painful. That is a hard software problem to solve. Choosing to solve it at the expense of your paying customers is a very poor (and selfish) choice.
Please restore the missing functionality, including local sync, color choice flexibility, encrypted text blocks (all previously included encrypted text block functionality), font options, and the richness of the Evernote client we have used and paid for over the last decade. This latest release is a disgrace and an insult to long-term users of the product.