Many companies I worked with stopped working with Notion in the past because of performance problems, the application was simply too slow. Has this changed with the new sharded architecture, as I haven't used it since probably last year?
Doing big surgery takes time, meanwhile your workload continues to grow and grow. It’s not uncommon for a major win to only reset the clock by 6-12 months, and then you either have to run to the next one, or you have two teams working on separate angles at the same time. All the while people are learning as they go because the business settled on catch-up instead of capacity planning.
Being a little successful can be tough.
Search is still pretty slow.
I'm founding engineer of a new startup now and I advocated for Guru. https://www.getguru.com/
I like how information is marked stale/verified and the permission are much tighter. The data ladder is also better structured. I'll see how it works as our headcount increases.
Notion has a lock feature [1] on a document-level.
[1] - https://www.notion.so/Lock-page-content-d2b995727c0b483f9f35...