Tandoor, Mealie, Recipe Sage, Kitchen Owl all have borderline unusable UI's. Particularly with the recipe creation section. It seems a lot of people are happy with Mealie, I am assuming this is because most people import/scrape there recipes? Creating recipes by hand with any of these apps is incredibly clunky.

None of them have options for categorizing your recipes beyond tagging, ie a folder of pastry recipes. You can't really customize any of them at all, ie Tandoor & Mealie both assume youl be adding pictures to your recipes, so all of the tiles in the main home view are massive and doesn't look very good.

Cooklang could have been amazing, but there was this strange decision to make defining your ingredient list inline with the recipe steps, which seems very "simple" in the long run makes everything more complicated for a variety of reasons.

Right now I have several hundred recipes in a Google spreadsheet, which is as you can imagine pretty clunky, but I don't think its an exaggeration to say that it still beats out any of the options I've come across.