Notion's Core Reliability Declines While Only AI Features Get Updates
A longtime Notion user reports the app has become unreliable over time, with pages failing to load correctly, intermittent sync failures, and harder navigation, while core feature development has stagnated. They note that only the AI agent functionality continues to receive updates, leaving everyday usability to degrade.
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