MickyD

why would anyone want read-only notes by default? that look completely different to the source? compared to Evernote first 10 years of life these read-only, stripped-down, duplicated notes not only represent poor UX decisions but raises the question of Evernote's usefulness compared to say OneNote going forward

for most of my 13 years of subscription this was not necessary both before and after results in a note that looks completely different from the source. again wasnt the case for ~13 years

Well I'm not too sure about that. Case in point, using Evernote back in 2010 I captured an article from the web using the clipper. Just now the Evernote client quite happily let me edit it the very same note to make the word "blocked" bold. See Capture01.png below I know it was only in the last year or so Evernote made it very difficult in the client to find that "edit" button for web clips and sometime this year you can't at all. The current Evernote web clipper regardless of which text-based capture format option is chosen simplifies or removes formatting ultimately resulting in data fidelity loss. So Evernote has already broken it. With no ability it edit the unattractive web-clips we create this year we might just have to take raster-style "screenshots" in which case I will cancel my Premium subscription of 13 years and use Microsoft OneNote. https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022954093-The-new-note-editor-in-Evernote https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/128961-how-to-edit-webclip-note/