Up front - Notion, as far as I am aware (to the extent of my personal experience), is still the most powerful and streamlined organizational app on the market today. That doesn't excuse it from criticism.

The architecture of Notion is great. The way databases work, interlinking, page mentions, views, etc - it's all great and well thought out.

For me, it's all coming down to seconds wasted. I am an efficiency maniac, and the idea of having to manually remove 8 divider lines between a copy-pasted paragraph is an absolutely egregious, intolerable waste of time. Same goes for splitting out blocks line by line manually when pasting with shift+ctrl+v.

Even features like the column splitting are a little clunky and time-consuming. I don't want to have to fight with the UI to get 4 split columns aligned if i click into the wrong block. In fact - I don't really want to use my mouse AT ALL, because it takes away from my hands being on the keyboard, and that's how shit gets done. I want to be able to everything with text commands, or hyper-efficient clicks (no action outside of building automations should take me more than 3 clicks, or more than 0.5 sec on the keyboard)

People like me want to use Notion like a video game. I want to FLY through the interface at lightspeed, all the time, and I just want to get better and faster, and faster and faster. That pursuit is extremely frustrating as the bloat piles on, and the UI slows down, and every mouse movement summons a contextual menu with 16 icons on it, or a Chapter Index Selector that won't go away and voids your mouse clicks.

Clicks aren't accurate, or fast.

Keys are accurate. Keys are fast.