[Steltek]

While I haven't tried these swim lanes (or Trello since acquisition), I agree with you. Trello was about simplicity and being the anti-Jira. I don't see swimlanes as an absolute must-have that's in keeping with how Trello was built.

I think there will always be a group praising the addition of features. That's how all Enterprise software gets to be the way it is. Every "I won't buy it because I need $checkbox_feature" begets a meeting between sales and engineering to see how fast it could be implemented.