This may be unpopular, but they made three legitimately GOOD changes to Notepad, before they went absolutely batshit.

- Dark mode

- Tabs

- "Continue previous session" (restore after restart)

But they also made a HUGE regression which isn't talked about enough:

- Previously, if you delete the underlying file, Notepad didn't "notice." Meaning you could Save to recreate it. The file existed in an ephemeral state, as long as the Notepad window remained open. Right now, if you delete the underlying file, Notepad notices immediately, errors out, and closes that tab -- content gone.

VSCode handles this correctly, it puts a line through the filename in the tab (and red-font), but doesn't close the tab on you suddenly. Ephemeral state retained.

In my ideal world Notepad needs exactly ONE new feature:

- Right Click Tab: "Copy Path."

Then just REMOVE: Spell Checker, Formatting, CoPilot, Markdown(!), and Autocorrect. Completely inappropriate functionality for Notepad, and the Vibecoded Markdown implementation already added a security vulnerability(!) to freaking Notepad. Branch off into a product called "Wordpad" and then create all of that garbage in there.