@mhoye It is almost as though there are several disciplines for managing projects and programs and products that can reliably synthesize and communicate state to stakeholders on correct cadences.

And JIRA's promise too often is to get ICs to do that for you for free in a tool that they derive no benefit from?

Ludicrous. Pay your project managers. Train them. Maybe you'll get lucky and find yourself a Shell (the best PM I've ever had the privilege of working with, across all values of P).