Firstly, as I hope was clear from what I wrote previously and you are responding to, I am not defending the stupidity of the reMarkable cloud service and keep the WiFi off in the same way that I do with my Kindle. To me, fewer features and a “simple” device is not a negative but a positive as I want a device that only does note taking. If you are happy with the Apple ecosystem – like plenty of my colleagues are – there is nothing inherently wrong with an iPad as an option. It is however arguably less hackable and less supportive of FLOSS, which to me were things I cared about when I got my reMarkable about three years ago.