you can also just uninstall the "new" notepad, at which point Windows will let you run the old one again (which is still shipped!).

By using a version that is _that_ old you do lose out on some of the actually useful updates legacy nodepad received, such as LF line ending support.

What? Did they accidentally revert the improvements they already made to previously shipped versions of the old notepad program?

I think it's in reference to using Win9x notepad.exe as opposed to somewhere in the Win7-10 timeframe before they went over the top in Win11.

	▲	ptx 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, yes, I misread it as the newer versions shipping an older notepad.