It's not that I think is a particularly good or bad implementation of project management software (though I think as others have pointed out, in its effort to b

It's not that I think is a particularly good or bad implementation of project management software (though I think as others have pointed out, in its effort to be all things to all people, I think it has converged on a lowest common denominator solution). I reject the concept of general purpose project management software. I think that at best these tools are primarily surveillance tools for middle management. They disempower workers and make them fungible. The workers are evaluated on tool points rather than the actual value they create (sometimes these may be alignment, but often they are not). At worst, I think they actually lower product quality because of the poor incentives that are inherent in a system that rewards closing issues and creating "features". I believe the best workers (at both the management and IC level) are not going to want to waste a significant chunk of their professional lives in Jira world and the worst workers just want to keep their paycheck coming every month so they will just submit to it and keep cashing their checks. The organization will thus rot and converge on the lowest common denominator employee, which is indeed what the tool kind of promised: fungible, low skill workers with predictable (low) output.