Productivity apps interrupt active work sessions with repetitive review prompts
Notion and similar productivity apps display aggressive app store review requests during active work sessions, breaking concentration at the worst moments. The pattern is structural across the productivity app ecosystem and reflects misaligned incentives between user experience and app store ratings.
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