If I don't like a certain workflow, I can grow, develop or change my filing and note-taking system as I see fit. No longer do I need to know where things are.
Now, with org-roam, I create hubs of knowledge and ideas that I can come back to at a later point without worrying about linearity or chronology. After years of using it and thousands of articles I find things. With org-mode I have created my very own filing and research system. It became my personal black hole that swallowed up information but never gave it back. I couldn't find things when I needed them, it didn't support a non-linear mode of work. I used to keep my academic notes in Evernote and it turned into hell after about 2,000 notes and a few years of work. After (!) one has sunk thousands of hours into them.
What some are missing is the fact that low barriers to entry sometimes turn into barriers to growth at a later stage. I see a lot of comments arguing that it's not 'worth it' to spend dozens of hours to 'get into org-mode' when there are 'intuitive tools' such as Evernote or Trello or Todoist etc.
