I really like Notion's UI. I wish they would focus only on that and let me access my Notion DB as .md files with Claude.
I know this is probably out of scope, but I'd love it as well if Notion could slowly accrete the features of Airtable... at least expose some form of programmatic access to tables!
Take a look at Outline! I use it almost exactly like a cloud based Obsidian vault. And they have been very responsive for MCP feature requests