Linking issues and doc is pretty much nice feature.
I don't have Atlassian experience but I feel Notion databases slow to interact and with unnecessary animations and transitions. Sure regular Notion pages are fast to load.
Coming from extensive excel user teams, Sheets is really hard for me to navigate.
I think this is one of the core pain points. Google workspace is like being default for most startups tied to email but then GW don't have enough tools or high quality enough? I would rather use notion than writing in google doc for e.g.