On the face of it yes, but the bigger point I was trying to make is that some of us have challenges with remembering things and external prompts/interruptions (

On the face of it yes, but the bigger point I was trying to make is that some of us have challenges with remembering things and external prompts/interruptions (alarms, timers, notifications) are in that case all the same thing. If I’m not going to remember myself, or check on something in time to act on it (say a message), I need another system to do it. But not everyone is like that. So we’re always going to fall on a spectrum between no notifications and all notifications. I did touch on ads in notifications, they’re violation of the trust in allowing someone to interrupt you. Unless you signed up to be notified about time-sensitive deals, that notifications is going to disappoint.