The new features feel unnecessary and almost like bloatware. Other LLMs, such as DeepSeek, Gemini, etc are AI tools that other companies, universities, etc have licenses with. The AI credits are also useless - what is the incentive to use GoodNotes AI vs DeepSeek, Gemini, GPT4, etc, if you need to pay $9.99 more per month.

There isn't a way to turn off AI in GoodNotes either, which is pretty frustrating.
A huge motivation for people to switch from Notability to GoodNotes was the better UI and affordability. Paying $9.99/month for AI credits, for a feature I haven't seen many friends/students/redditors on r/GoodNotes use, is moving away from optimizing user experience and instead where money is, industrially.

Also, the audio transcription tools are confusing and don't work. I can't transcribe my notes (and after looking through r/GoodNotes, many others cannot) - I find this to be an accessibility issue. Then, to generate notes, you have to purchase AI credits to use your recordings? Again, doesn't feel very accessible or user-friendly - just takes up space on my iPad.