Tasks has an advantage in that's just always there with Gmail. I find it works just well enough. I'm a GTD guy but I don't want to spend half my day organizing and cataloging and tagging tasks and looking for the best app. I LIKE to keep my task list simple. And I don't want to have to try and figure out how it all syncs to my Android phone, my Linux desktop, and my iPad. (How's that for a mix?!)
So yeah, Tasks is a bit basic but it works. That's the blessing and curse of Google Apps. They're so convenient and de facto and connected to the Google ecosystem, that those factors can trump sheer functionality, and Google doesn't really need to push their development so hard because people will still use them despite their limitations.
It would be nice to see some improvements, absolutely. But I hope they don't make it too too complicated.
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