I bailed on Noteplan when the author doubled the annual subscription price to $120. I switched from Obsidian to Noteplan because I greatly preferred the native app to Electron, but it’s not that much better to justify costing $70 per year more.
I do love how Noteplan handles daily notes, and used Shortcuts to script up my replacement app of choice to emulate my favorite bits of it.
I think I'm locked in at the old price, thankfully.
The Daily Notes are essential, especially with templates.