Has logseq changed recently? When I tried it, I really disliked the very rigidly based list style / bullet point architecture for notes. It works great for todo lists, but for longform journalism and notetaking was deeply unsatisfying.

I don't think obsidian popularity is very strange. It's got a very clean look to it, the search is very fast, it's very easy to interlink all of your notes together, it's got a graph builder, and it's trivial to write plug-ins in JavaScript and extend its capability.

I do wish it was open source – that's the only drawback to it for me.