David Oliver's Comments
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At some point, there has to be trust; otherwise, don't switch on your computer! Yes, there are plenty of bad actors and this is why following best practices is so important hence why Tana's privacy statement is better than most. Yes, they can change policy, but you can move as well! Where there is a will there is a way!
I'm a Visual-Spatial thinker and am currently researching Graph Views.
Graph Views in Obsidian have very poor utility because so many nodes are displayed. When filters are applied, you can see things but have no features to do anything about it, so there is no way to create more notes and change connections. The Canvas feature can do this but won't help you intelligently build the Graph; it's very manual. Better Graphs are found in Anytype and Capacities.io, but the winners are Scrintal and Heptabase. For a visual-spatial thinker, Scrintal wins because it can build abstraction on abstraction, just like Tana. Heptabase is unable to go down further than one layer, but it does have a superior visual editing tool and a better text editor. Heptabase also uses Tags in a similar way to Tana so that it can make a good companion.
Where my brain is going, Tana is a near-perfect outliner. Developing graphical abilities will be a distraction when the development bandwidth is better spent elsewhere, such as integration! Now, if Tana could integrate with Heptabase or Scrintal, this would be better as both dev teams could focus on their core strengths rather than development functionality away from its core mission. For me Tana as your database at the heart of a productivity ecosystem sounds like a better option.