The problem with JIRA and its ilk is that they try to do bug tracking, planning, and historical data all in the same tool, when those are really separate problems.

Have a bug? JIRA makes perfect sense, you have a ticket with comments, it keeps track of how long it's been around, it can automatically move the bug through a process, etc. All these tools started out as "bug trackers" after all.

Trying to plan future work? What I usually want is some kind of lightweight graph tool to figure out task A unblocks task B, etc. This graph changes a lot over time, with tasks merging and splitting apart. I've wasted a lot of time trying to enter all this in tickets.

Want to know about work that's already completed? I would never look at JIRA. Look at your Git forge. Pull requests should have proper descriptions. The Git history will always be more accurate and detailed than a bunch of JIRA cards.

So basically, use JIRA for bug tracking, Git/Github/Gitlab for historical tracking, and I'm not sure what to use for planning. Honestly I've been reaching for Excalidraw recently.