I had to go find the original version of skitch, built by a different company, because of how badly the Evernote team massacred it. They just seem like a company more interested in high level bullshit than actual user experience.
Well, the core OCR/HWR function of Evernote was developed by a different company, in a sense. The company was headed by Pachikov who is a veteran of the HWR field. He is currently retired, to the best of my knowledge.
I am not sure, who took the course of codebase/feature sprawl. Retrospectively, that was a bad choice.
If only HWR was available separately from all that disorderly bunch.