I believe Asana is designed for the Asana Inbox and My Tasks views to both be integral parts of every single workflow. So I wonder if we see this differently; that is, if your statement means that you’re trying to keep your users in this project/task/comment thread rather than leaning on Inbox and My Tasks to take some of the burden off of this project.
With clients, I regularly run into attempts to do everything in projects and see the frustration that results; it’s asking too much, I feel.
Yes, there are downsides to subtasks, but for complex workflows, I feel there’s no other way. If you haven’t already, please consider taking a look at this:
Also, for times when you have a lot of subtasks, you can improve the appearance and structure with this:
Thanks,
Larry