Hmmm, I can see why you're doing this. But if you don't trust TODO comments to be useful and/or addressed in a timely manner then having a bunch of Jira tickets

Hmmm, I can see why you're doing this. But if you don't trust TODO comments to be useful and/or addressed in a timely manner then having a bunch of Jira tickets won't help you either. I've made the exact same experience you describe with both tickets and comments. Ancient tickets, somewhere deep in the backlog with cryptic descriptions. Or even better, high prio bugs that never get picked up by the teams. Same with TODOs and FIXMEs. In both cases it's probably a good idea to just remove the perceived issue after a while. Backlog tickets and todo comments are not like wine, they don't age well. IMO they behave more like compost heaps. :-)