I feel your pain. But many softwares now have this chronic "featuritis" because new features are the new bread and butter. It's the reason the music notation software Finale was discontinued. I used it for 30 years. Its replacement is Steinberg's Dorico, which has a bad case of the same featuritis. I don't like any of the new features, just as I don't like many of the new Evernote features. As to issues with instability, I noticed performance is better if you don't use the install and upgrade your hardware. Evernote is a resource hog. Max out your RAM and hard drive space.