@daringfireball Your assessment of Essayist is spot on. It doesn't have product fit yet and as a former academic it shows. Would maybe work for first-year undergraduates but it's not a tool for professionals.

The industry desperately needs a replacement for papers.app; Papers 3 was the gold standard for academic writing IMO and a great native Mac app. Then it got brought out and turned into an enshittified SAAS web-app.