I realize that Tana is "more powerful" because you can tag anywhere, and smart nodes collate the results. But what that leads to is stuff all over the place and working with search nodes all the time. I still haven't got comfortable with that - I want to see a list and add to a list. Manipulating the mirror list isn't quite the same and sometimes goes wrong "you can't move this item under a search node" for example. I see lots of places where people ask "I want a fresh sheet and to start over" - I've never seen this request in any other tool. I'm convinced the reason is that people don't come at this with hierarchy in mind, and then just create a total dogs breakfast of a mess where they now have to remember tags and all that jazz. Yes I want supertags and to have interrelations. But the move to almost dismiss hierarchy is not human friendly or how writers / creators work. We want a list and to be able to sort it. I have a button that moves tags to their homes - and its been pretty well mocked over on the slack channel, but honestly I think it should be a core feature - ie "when I tag this, I'd like to move it to this part of my outline so I can manipulate it more easily". I'm glad I came from WorkFlowy which reveres the hierarchy. The linking is more powerful. But linking with no sense of hierarchy or organizing principle leads to chaos - and I fear thats where folks who don't have an outliner background are slowly heading - hence the "reset" questions.
So much this. And hearing that your concerns and solutions are mocked is disheartening. People have different needs and preferences. Tana markets itself as flexible and wanting to fit your workflow but if there is such a strongly opinionated design hidden underneath and ambassadors mocking or discouraging people's personal workflows and preferences is a bit alarming. My brain works exactly the same way as you describe and hearing this makes me feel a bit uncomfortable about going all in on Tana.