Microsoft’s Notepad and Paint applications have been part of Windows for decades, and up until recently they were both pretty barebones applications – one for creating and editing text-based documents ...

There's a difference between the "Notepad app" and notepad.exe. The Notepad app has the AI and all the new stuff in it. But the old C : \windows\system32\notepad.exe still exists, and is unencumbered ...