I am sure I'm not the only one who have asked for this in the past, but I will ask for it once again (not hoping for much though, since 2 years passed since I first asked for it -others too as I said- and nothing has been done).

ADD NEW PENS! This is handwriting note taking app! Pens have been the same since GN4! Oh, don't tell me that the "brush pen" you added in the horrible GN5 is an addition! It does nothing! How about looking at other note taking apps to see the variety of pens they offer? I have been using GN4 for about 5 years so far (GN5 has a loooong way to go till it becomes barely good -I will complain about it below) and no progress has been done on this. Give your loyal customers pens! Give them variety! Going paperless needs more pens! We do so many things with GN and we have to still stick to only two pens???

Now, let's go to complaints (gee, where to start from?)

No, ladies and gentlemen, GN5 has NOT been an upgrade! You said "you started from scratch" to build GN5. Why??? What was so bad about GN4 that you had to dump it and start from scratch?

So many months after its release, GN5 lacks basic things: writing is not at all as smooth as in GN4, it is actually worse (!!!), and in the zoom window the app does not have the necessary tools that GN4 had. Till the moment I'm writing all these (Nov 18, 2019), there must have been about 7 or 8 months since GN5 was released. Too much time has passed and the two things I mentioned a few lines above (not smooth writing and no tools in the zoom window) are still not where they're supposed to be. Especially smooth writing, one of the things I loved in GN4 from the start and still do while I'm using it, is absent in GN5. Are you even trying the app yourselves? Are you listening to us?

It it the first time I am talking like this, but you people made me furious with GN5! I've been using various apps all these years in my iPads and never have I rated one of them with 1 star in the AppStore. Never, till GN5 got released. On the contrary, I gave GN4 four stars from the first time I downloaded and then bought it. Never regretted buying GN4 and still consider it one of the top note taking apps.

I am a maths teacher and make too much use of my iPad and GN4. I have invested too much time working with them, but GN5 failed me big time! What good does it for me to have better app colors and folders and a laser point in GN5, if writing in GN5 is so bad and the app makes my life hard by not giving me in the zoom window what GN4 gave me from the start? Yes, I liked the new feature you added to the laser point, but it's not my No1 tool. GN5 lacks basic tools to make my life easy.

Concluding:

1. Add more pens! Add more pens! Add more pens!
2. Make writing in GN5 as smooth as in GN4! Writing in GN5 with the Apple Pencil is way worse than in GN4! GN4 is still much better than GN5!
3. Add the necessary tools in the zoom window! We write at the bottom and have to send our hand all the time to the top to erase, to change color, to undo! Is this an upgrade?
4. Live up to the reputation you made with GN4! GN4 still kicks ass! GN5 not!

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to express my complaints and some basic requests.