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by binary132 548 days ago
Jira is incredibly slow, almost unusable. So awful.
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More features = more customers = more revenue

More data collection = more revenue

More crap layered on = everything is slower

Everything sucks = more support demand = supply price leverage = more revenue

Enterprise software is necessarily slow and complicated, and not for your benefit.

I’m not quite following your point. It sounds like you’re agreeing that Jira sucks?
Yup
Yeah, so the pathological incentives to build bad products are just insane. It’s more evidence against the whole market-Darwinian hypothesis being good for the consumer. “Fitness” doesn’t equal (let alone define) product quality.