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And that problem somehow goes away if you store that same information in a separate system?

No, but it's about keeping the ticket box signal to noise ratio in check. One box for actionable, high signal items. One box for all the ~junk~ ideas.

Junk ideas are useful to document too. When the idea resurfaces, one can read why it did not get through the first time.

A ticket-system like JIRA is the same as an e-mailclient to me. You sort by activity, having the most active tickets on top. You can flag/mark them, you can put them in different boxes or just use tags,... All are just means to create order in chaos.

But I would never think to move my old e-mail to a different 'system' than my normal e-mail(client). I never think of old e-mails or drafts as something I need to clean up.

Yes, because you just don't look at the list at all.

Which is fine, you can then save even more effort by never writing them down at all.

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