I agree with the premise, but some of the examples are iffy. A lot of these design decisions are tradeoffs, not pure benefit.

Notion's idea of having blocks that can be shared between documents is very cool, but that has an obvious access control problem. What access do you need to see a document with information from multiple other documents? It was easy to find confused users: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/12iqsc2/synced_bloc...