We deserve better than Confluence and Notion
The hatred for atlassian products, IMO, has a root cause in a few facts:<p>1) it's an enterprise product, so the typical enterprise issue of: it's not being sold to the users, the people who it's being sold to don't have to feel the pain, and checking off features is more important than UX.<p>2) that said, it's not the worst enterprise.  It is possible to configure atlassian products to have a really smooth UX (can't say the same about speed, the last I used atlassian, it was really, really, slow though that may have changed).  However, wrangling the product (and its users) is almost a full-time job, and atlassian is known to have breaking transitions that mess up your workflow with no recourse to go back to classic.  Change management is hard.<p>3) a lot of higher ups who make the choice of using atlassian even if they are technical and once were a user of atlassian products, used it in an era where it was simpler or worked in an environment where they were privileged enough to have a full-time wrangler from 2)