We run our company through Notion. Part of using it is establishing your own best practices within the company. Since Notion is flexible, it provides you the opportunity to be rigid and make the decisions on database design that is right for your team.

Notifications in Notion are very poor and that is a valid criticism mentioned in the article. I imagine it will only improve over time and with the coming public API we should start seeing third-party tools supplementing Notion for specific use cases.