It’s insane how you have to be a Visionary member and manually email them to gain anything from Standard Notes.
Agreed, but I think the minimum tier threshold should be Unlimited, not Visionary. Unlimited is already bundled with SimpleLogin, so I see no reason it should be different for Standard Notes.
This is, of course, assuming that Standard Notes remains a separate product from Proton, which is most definitely not ideal, as discussed here and here.