Seems like bloat to me, too

I prefer writing with a mechanical pencil

For editing text on a screen, I prefer UNIX utilities ed, sed, ex/vi and custom filters written in C. The later can be used within ed or ex/vi via

   :!filter

The slow, error-prone step is getting the text _accurately_ from the paper to bits in the computer. A personalised OCR that can recognise own handwriting might be helpful