Just my own day-to-day experience.
I run a busy forum and I want to read everything but I don’t always get time.
Then when I get @ mentioned or replied in a post, I get a notification. I can’t click the notification because I know it will skip down far in the list and I’ll miss a lot of posts, it’s an absolute nightmare to try and scroll up and find where I last left off.
So my notifications area is never used, which means I miss notifications until days after, and sometimes they are important.
And if I see that I have an @ mention in a thread called “Example Thread”, and that thread isn’t easy to see in the list, I can’t even search for it because that will take me to the very top of the thread and I’ll have to scroll all the way down to find where I left off.
There is just no easy way to open the thread where I last left off if I have a notification in there.
It’s a really bad situation for me!