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I've been using cryptpad.fr (the "flagship instance" of CryptPad) for years. It's...fine. Really, it's fine. I'm not thrilled with the experience, but it is functional and I'm not aware of any viable alternatives that are end-to-end encrypted.
It's based on OnlyOffice, which is basically a heavyweight web-first Microsoft Office clone. Set your expectations accordingly.
No mobile apps, and the web UI is not optimized for mobile. I mean, it works, but does using the desktop MS Office UI on a smartphone sound like fun to you?
Performance is tolerable but if you're used to Google Sheets, it's a big downgrade. Some of this is just the necessary overhead involved in an end-to-end encrypted cloud service. Some of it is because, again, this is a heavyweight desktop UI running in a web browser. It's functional, but it's not fast and it's not pretty.
To be fair though. The experience of google and Microsoft online word/spreadsheets/etc... also sucks ass on a smartphone. Much better, sure, but doing spreadsheets or writing a paper on a phone is a bad experience in general.