I felt this in my teeth.
Lemme lean into this a little harder: JIRA is what companies buy when they should have invested in manager training five years ago.
@mhoye very curious about this because I can’t tell if you mean jira in particular or bug tracking systems in general.

@bsmedberg Every project needs issue trackers, but describing Jira as an issue tracker is like describing McDonald's as a restaurant. It's a organizational culture and language least-common-denominator normalization tool whose endpoint happens to resemble an issue tracker.

A well-functioning issue tracker is a core part of making an org visible and legible to itself; adopting a tool that forces every part of an org to speak the same operational language is the lowest-trust path to that goal.

@mhoye @bsmedberg #PostgreSQL doesn't use any bug tracker. There's only a mailing list.
Seems to work pretty well in the last 26 years.
@sjstoelting @mhoye @bsmedberg It worked for 26 years, more or less. If it works "pretty well" is questionable.