What do you mean "half-assed"? I manage very large collections of notes with it, in ways that no other PKMS can, just because none of them approach "note as data" (or "typed notes") in a way that Trilium does.

My #1 criteria is for all my notes to remain consistent over time. If I create a note type for "Projects", I want all notes representing a Project to have the same properties (start date, location, cost, ...) at all time. Trilium has very neat concepts like Templates and Attributes Inheritance that make changes on the template be reflected on instances. That's something even AnyType, Notion, Capacities, Logseq, Tena and others are struggling with. When your collection grows, so does your bookkeeping with those systems, and what should be a tool to help you get stuff done ends up giving you more work to do and holding you back. I beg to see a tool that helps my productivity so much.