- simple plain text note-taking; - available on android, iOS and web; - available offline and syncs (more or less) reliably; - full text search.
I do not want more features on my note-taking app. I do not want it to go on steroid. Google Keep is not trash. It is perfect for the intended audience. You are just not part of that audience.
Anything destined for for that pit of despair I write in vi and excel, and copy/paste or import. Docs is not quite awful, but nowhere close to nice to use.
And "just search" as an organizing principle for docs from lots of people who aren't information nerds ends up leading to a bucket of ass. Newhires end up doing broken things because they found an outdated doc, you have to pick through multiple versions of other people's crap that never goes away, etc.
I keep all my docs to myself and render-to-Google when something needs to be shared. Reminds me a bit of blogging, really, with crappier tools.
Come on people, when is sharing an opinion worth a downvote?
I definitely had some syncing issues with in the past as well, but I understand it has improved.
It is also very easy to save your notes as a google doc. I don't think there is a lot of risk...