If you think the trial was rigged, you can always take it up with the European Court of Human Rights since America is a signatory to their convention. Honestly, who knows how much weight that actually carries.
I messed around with Notion a while back, but I honestly never saw the point of cloud-based note-taking when you can just use plenty of other reliable, free cloud services for that.
Also, if it was working fine before, you probably just have some wonky settings on your PC. Honestly, my best advice is to just reinstall everything to reset it to factory defaults. Evernote does have customer support too, though being on a free plan might mean a bit of a wait.