[jakebrereton]

Jake here, and I work on the Jira team at Atlassian.

On the topic of feature bloat, this is something that our teams take very seriously. The fine line our PMs and Engineers are always trying to walk is ensuring Jira remains the most customizable and extensible project and issue tracker on the market while also providing individual teams within Jira an experience that is simple and intuitive enough to never bog them down. In short, it's striking the perfect balance between power and simplicity, both for admins as well as teams.

Based on much of the feedback we've received, we're making good progress on this front with the next-gen project types that we launched a year ago. Next-gen projects marry the power of Jira with the simplicity of Trello. You can learn more about the next-gen experience here: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/next-gen.

If anyone on this thread has specific feedback that they would like to share with myself and some of the Jira PMs, we would sincerely welcome the opportunity to speak with you. Please shoot me an email: jake (at) atlassian.com.