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Canva Collaboration Experience Feels Fragmented and Unpolished

Users report that Canva's collaborative features feel disconnected and poorly designed for teams that need true real-time collaboration. The complaint is brief and does not specify a discrete software gap. This is a generic satisfaction complaint without an actionable market problem.

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