[matt_the_bass]

> We used to write our own stories in Jira and they were mostly one liners. They have now implemented so many required fields to fill out. Filing out one story might take 30 minutes.

Perhaps you should embrace this. Spending time at the story level means you spend early effort to clarify the issue and specify the (possible) solution. In other words: planning.

I know this may seem like it sucks and is not really worth it, but it is often really valuable, especially as you grow and scale. Your company has been bought by a larger one. Obviously one value of this is to use the larger company’s resources to scale faster.

Maybe some of the story requirements are extraneous, but perhaps you should work with central management to improve the jira story requirements not fight against them.