I use notifications almost everywhere, but I also have some variant of ‘Do Not Disturb’ enabled at all times on most of my devices. It’s handy to have a list of new information, but I don’t want it to know about it until I choose to.

On my phone I only have Do Not Disturb enabled when I really don’t want to be disturbed, but otherwise I only allow audio alerts for phone calls; everything else either pops up on my Lock Screen quietly, gets a badge that I can sort out later, or doesn’t matter enough for me to spend any time on unless I open the app.