Jira is one of those tools which tend to give managers an illusion of progress at the expense of actual progress. It's not just Jira, there are many tools today

Jira is one of those tools which tend to give managers an illusion of progress at the expense of actual progress. It's not just Jira, there are many tools today which are like that; they aim to give non-technical managers a feeling of control over a technical process which they are often not capable of understanding. These tools are designed to allow non-technical project managers to not trust their technical people - This is a recipe for poor quality results. The best CEO and CTO that I've ever worked for used Trello as their only project management platform and they personally kept tabs on all the main tasks; even as the company grew. They had a good intuitive understanding of how long things should take. There is a really big difference between seeing what needs to be done versus understanding what needs to be done; no amount of advanced project management tooling can make a manager actually understand what is happening.