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Asana locks essential features behind premium pricing tiers

Small teams and growing companies find that core productivity features in Asana are gated behind plan upgrades they cannot justify at their scale. This creates a friction point where users get value from the free tier but hit walls on features needed for real workflows. The pricing gap between entry and premium tiers is disproportionate to the feature delta.

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