You can pick a custom keyboard shortcut, and you can decide to simply press that shortcut instead of pressing and holding it.
The open-source advantage also plays a big part. You're not trusting some VC-backed company to make decisions about your data. You own what you create, you can audit the code, and you can even ...
OneNote has its own issues - it stores your data in opaque formats and offers very little transparency or portability, so ...