I agree! The deal based internal emails should have the same level of functionality as the contact based workflow emails do ! Currently the internal email notification exists on deal based workflows but it is very limited in functionality.
(1000 character limit and only deal tokens allowed. The HTML formatting of the email is also not very sharp. )
This becomes very difficult to explain to higher level management who is now used to getting great automatic emails from the contact based workflows.
I have to send a deal closed email alert to my finance team and I have more information to share than what could fit in the 1000 character limit. Right now we send 2 alert emails for each deal that gets closed. ( It defeats the whole purpose of having an email alert! the finance team is still as confused as they were before the email alerts! )