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Joplin has apps for all UNIX-likes(Mac, Win and Lin,) iOS(phone and pad variants), and Android. It can import Evernote and OneNote. It's built to E2EE notes to cloud services, currently supporting: Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, S3, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive or the local file system.
If you'd like to fully tell M$ to get fucked....I can recommend self hosting NextCloud.
Not incredibly difficult to set up, I'm fairly fluent in Linux systems....but by no means a "Wizard", and my self hosting knowledge is extremely minimal.
There's other options out there, but Joplin has all the apps....
Do any of those focus primarily on handwriting for input and support macOS, android, and windows for offline input?
Yep!
See point #2. Hand written notes can be kept as is, one thing that's not mentioned in that link is that Joplin can also use OCR to change handwriting to typed.
That's a Markdown editor with a separate drawing tool, not a notes app focused on handwriting. You can't annotate a PDF or typed text or edit a drawing after it's been created.
Not at all comparable.