Asana is great when you have 50 people and a dedicated project manager. Before that, it gets in the way.

Asana has spent a decade building a genuinely powerful platform for large organizations. If you're coordinating across multiple teams, need workflow automation, and have someone to manage the tool itself — it's excellent. For a team of 2-10 who just wants to ship things, it's an enormous amount of overhead before you even write your first task.