Where do you take notes now (2022)?

I have gone through different things and back to where I had started. I primarily take notes on widows notepad now. I just dislike mac note taking apps: first there are two native apps. One app tries to be more than just notepad, it's whole note management system. And second one preserves formatting and frustrating to get spaces right. Windows notepad does one thing and it does it well. Text Editor that saves a file, fast, clean, simple.

I started to use Evernote many years ago, then it started to lag and just suck, switched to MS Onenote, it just didn't know how to sync, 8 chapters worth of summaries I had written from reading a book disappeared and that finally made me quit it. Google docs kinda work but has the worst UI for file explorer and too much like MS word and since it's not standalone app the tab gets lost among other tabs, where standalone app is easy to switch to visually and through shortcuts.

I now just create bunch of text files on desktop: todo, book summary, appointments, etc... and when I'm done with them I just move them into giant unorganized folder. I have found notes from 7 years ago this way. Sure if there was a native clean app to search through all txt files it'd be great. But not so bad tbh.