I dislike Jira, but it's quite untrue that it's absurd that there needs to be context and a record of discussion for tasks. People leave, focus changes, memories fade.

It's not a unique occurrence that I wonder "why the hell is it done like this?!" only to find it was a decision I was part of with developers who had left in a least-worst-change trade-off. Jira or products like it help us avoid repeating the same mistakes.

Put another way, part of the art is not just the code, but the code that's not there. Jira/tickets are one way of managing that data.

And at other times, it's just a tool for bureaucracy, I get that.