I posted a thread a while back about this topic and it grew to be about 30 pages!!! This is a very heated discussion at times. Cakewalk have made some minor improvements in the last several months to the notation view. Not leaps and bounds but comforting to know that they are at least working on it.
I, too, use Notion along with Sonar if I need the details of an arrangement such as dynamic markings, etc. At the very best, Sonar's notation is a scratch pad. Don't get me wrong, I still use it almost on a daily basis sometimes. And I hope that someday Cake will deliver on a notation feature in Sonar that is worthy of being included in Sonar.
Now that is all I have to say because in my opinion we all pretty much exhausted ourselves on that 30 page thread last year!!!!! LOL!
BTW, Notion can be Re-Wired in Sonar! I use that quite a bit as well.