[vlark]

Everyone making recommendations for other apps is missing the fact that the article is aimed at non-techies who aren't going to fire up a terminal or go searching for a plain-text, non-stylized text editor. TextEdit can save as plain text as other posters note, but most non-techies want a word processor where they can change fonts and font styles.

While I do like TextEdit, I prefer Bean (https://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html), which has been my quick word processor of choice on the Mac since the Tiger days.

[jama211]

Well said, and anyone who cares enough about text editing enough to notice is the kind of user capable of finding one (and probably having opinions on their favourite one, so apple couldn’t please everyone with a text editor anyway).

[CharlesW]

Also, don't sleep on the tragically underappreciated Pages.

[vlark]

Fair, but Pages tries to hard to be a Word replacement. And I think it calls home to the Apple mothership quite often, too.

Oh, for the good old days of AppleWorks!