Jira is completely awful and thus has the potential to take on any other form of awfulness.
Or is it Awfully-Complete? :)
Jira is the ultimate example of the concept of alienation. If Marx knew about Atlassian the Grundrisse would have been insanely lit.
The worst part is that every company with a tasks product works right towards Jira. Compare what GitHub issues were in 2014 to what they are today: https://github.com/features/issues
and they keep. adding. redundant. features