(Disclaimer: I’m still running Notes 8 beta M2 or M3, forget which.  Not final bits, so the below may no longer be an issue.)

Here’s a new memo and all I’m doing here is right-clicking in the body to get the context menu:

Check out Exhibit B here where I am right-clicking on the cells I pasted from Excel (which was converted by default into a picture, I believe):

Where was Paste Special when I really needed it?  And what happened to the accelerators (ctrl-X and so on)?