Couldn't disagree more. Notepad is a place to dump snippets of unformatted text, for a temporary duration unless I explicity save the file. I already didn't like that they added the tabs feature and autosave recently.
If I want to do writing I'll use one of the 6 tools on my PC more suited to that task.
If I want to do writing I'll use one of the 6 tools on my PC more suited to that task.