Having to manage links and tags for every note quickly makes the notion of a note system less than appealing.

Personally, I use a "temporary -Zettelkasten" strategy in my inbox. But it's more that I just timestamp new notes.

The power of obsidian imo is that I can quickly organize those inbox notes into their respective project notes with the touch of a hotkey

And then again in the project note, the Obsidian editor features (mostly around useful hotkeys) allow me to quickly manage my notes how I see fit (no particular strategy here other than being heavily influenced by GTD)