Sounds like the author would like Eclipse Mylyn (if it's still maintained :/)
BTW: In Eclipse JDT you can configure what kind of Java elements should be folded by default. The default config is that leading comments and imports are folded. Would be nice to be able to configure something like that via LSP.
Jetbrains (possibly a plug-in - focus on task els.) have a very-poor-man's version which hides all files from the filetree except the ones opened in an editor.
I never tried the issue integration out myself but agree that it's a good idea.