I was tempted by a remarkable, my colleagues love theirs (as does my dad).

However my need is personal rather than professional usage, so I didn't get one in the end.

What I have found that is (to me) better is an ipad mini "pencil", with goodnotes. The pen is ok, not as good as a wacom, but it'll do.

Goodnotes does have a subscription, but it also works on mac as well, so it allows me to get access to it when my ipad is else where. It exports to PDF well.

I only really use it to make notes/designs. The handwriting transcription isn't going to work well for my handwriting, but it does a reasonable job, given how hard my scrawls are to read. For that it works well, is about the same price as a remarkable, and does other things apart from note taking.

But, that is also its downside. You can do other things, which means distractions. Obviously you can make your notes richer by copy/pasta from the internets, but also you can be distracted by the internets too.

I used to have terrible handwriting to the point of not being able to read it myself, but it got better. It is a matter of practice and being more intentional with it, taking that little extra effort to make the letters readable. If something is worth writing down, it's probably worth the extra effort