I've asked myself the same question many times. I wonder if Jira inevitably becomes slower, overtime, as customers add configuration they deem necessary. Jira,

I've asked myself the same question many times. I wonder if Jira inevitably becomes slower, overtime, as customers add configuration they deem necessary. Jira, having multiple options available, will happily accommodate it without considering optimization as a boundary. A vanilla instance of Jira, more than likely, outperforms any custom configuration a customer will eventually apply. But that's just one theory.