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Obsidian with self hosted live sync is what I switched to and found it's actually better.
I've found Joplin acceptable.
I use OneNote quite frequently at work. It's so much more than a "handwriting app"... Hell, I use it often enough that I started using it at home years ago. However, I much prefer FOSS alternatives for my personal and home use, so I use Joplin Notes paired to a backup server I run on my home lab, that way they sync across all my devices just like OneNote does.
I use Joplin and OneNote, on an MS Surface. OneNote handles hand writing great, but it's also just a notes app that works great with typing and pictures and everything.
I wouldn't exactly call that the hallmark of OneNote, but okay. Have you tried Saber?
They're only killing the crappy store/UWP version that nobody used anyway and only caused confusion. The normal OneNote bundled in Office isn't going anywhere as far as I know.
That said, I've moved a lot of my note taking to Obsidian. It's not a perfect replacement but it's a fantastic markdown editor and now I use both for different use cases.
It was a really good app for quite a bit and had the best inking experience compared to the non-UWP version. A few years back they announced merging the features to the Win32 version and it has since been more or less on par now.
They’re just moving to the app store version.