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JIRA is the top project management platform for good reason. I know a lot of people complain that it's complicated, but every time I've something simpler we end up hitting a wall. JIRA just needs a sensible workflow configured for your project and it's great.

All that being said, I don't get this move. Atlassian has a very capable git product. GitHub should have attempted to anoint a new tool.

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People complain not only it's complicated but it is slow and overloaded with unnecessary features. Can you open up create a new ticket window and how many features and fields do you count?

3 - because we spent time configuring it to our needs.

You are unusual in having that be in your control, I suspect. Ours is centrally managed.

> Can you open up create a new ticket window and how many features and fields do you count?

Not sure what is the point of asking that question, it depends on what you have configured.

> JIRA is the top project management platform for good reason.

As others have said, it's popular with managers, not with developers, but managers make these decisions. I've worked at several places that used JIRA and it was always hated by rank-and-file developers but imposed from above.

That just means it's ideal for your projects, and maybe even most projects. That doesn't mean it's ideal for all projects though.

To use an obvious analogy, PHP is the most popular web backend language and it's ideal for my project, so you should be using it on your project regardless of what your project is...

Very few people would agree with that.

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