Seriously, just stop (or use Linux)
Notepad’s sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.
ctrl+shift+v is your friend
Doesn’t work everywhere…
Unsurprisingly Microsoft products are the least consistent with it

But but but that’s unacceptable!

Custom hotkey to trigger simple plaintext clipboard script, couldn’t live without it.

(“Script“ is a scary word for many of us but you probably only ever see the code once or instead use some free open source clipboard manager that has “replace clipboard with plain text“ built-in.)

Anyway you’re right, I probably still use a similar workaround once a week!