Some time ago, a Notion engineer was telling HN that their old principle of hiring slowly was blocking growth. This was around the same time Notion started lau

Some time ago, a Notion engineer was telling HN that their old principle of hiring slowly was blocking growth. This was around the same time Notion started launching half-baked feature like https://www.notion.so/help/guides/creating-links-and-backlinks https://www.notion.so/help/guides/creating-links-and-backlin... which, last time I checked, still doesn't have the smoothness of Roam or Obsidian. My gut says that every engineer they hired in the name of growth is trying to get their own little feature in to show impact. They prematurely scaled the company and it shows in the loss of focus.