Notion always felt painfully slow and fiddly. I have convinced myself that they have manufactured their entire perceived popularity through YouTube sponsorship. It seems like there is a better tool for every job.

I agree that it's slow, but it's because of the amount of functionality it provides.

If you just want to take plain notes, then yeah. Notion isn't what you want. However if you want sprawling databases that all inter-connected, amongst a variety of different formats, then Notion is amazing for that.

Without Notion the Notion influencers would be unable to organise their very busy influencing schedules.