[voidfunc]

The problem is Microsoft has two products in this space but everyone hates Azure DevOps which is supposed to be a JIRA competitor and GitHub is where all the momentum is. They'd love to ditch having to maintain ADO and GitHub long term but that means crapifying GitHub so they can migrate their ADO customers. At the same time they're hoping to pull Atlassian customers that use JIRA and GitHub to ditch the latter and just entirely be on GitHub.

What well end up with is a service that sucks to use for all cases.

[cratermoon]

ADO almost made me want to use Jira instead. Turned out that, while the product it not great, the pain I experienced using it had more to do with corporate processes than the software itself.

[SSLy]

ditch the former?

[ronnier]

I really dislike the use of former and latter. It’s confusing, people get it wrong, and it can be interpreted at least two different ways to make it ambiguous.

[layer8]

I agree that it tends to add cognitive overhead that could be avoided, but I don't see the ambiguity.