I once said this too. Then I tried a bunch of their competitors. Still stuck with some of them. Sadly, some of Atlassian's products - namely Confluence and Ji

I once said this too. Then I tried a bunch of their competitors. Still stuck with some of them. Sadly, some of Atlassian's products - namely Confluence and Jira - are the best in the business. Those complaining below about PMs staring at JIRA all day... well, this is a problem with PMs, not JIRA, and it happens even if they are using other work management tools. We created a middleman position in our business to deal with the stuff we didn't want to - tracking work, getting requirements, etc - and we must reap what we've sown. They become obsessed with the management stuff because that's why they exist, and they will fill their time to justify their existence.