There's a pattern underlying the claim: The reasons why the modern productivity suite is winning (Notion, Coda, Airtable, etc) is because they've embraced the

There's a pattern underlying the claim: The reasons why the modern productivity suite is winning (Notion, Coda, Airtable, etc) is because they've embraced the web and collaboration. - ability to share the original source to people - tag people right inside the document. - set tasks to people and track them from within the doc. - new age collaboration features - likes/comments/hashtags built-in - ability to tag a document within another document All these are small steps towards embracing the web's nature deeply inside product instead of just shipping the native features to run over the web. But there's a catch, these modern solutions tend to lag a bit over the powerfulness of what native offers, like - powerful charting capabilities - the calculation engine of excel - pagination of documents - powerful set of formatting features Interestingly it's much easier to build the new age features into the already powerful editor than vice versa - which is why google docs pivoted towards smart canvas features instead of launching an all new app.