We have tried many things and jira is just the most future proof. The others all fall short of with this ‘do one thing and do it well’; that is great but life is dynamic so that one thing doesn’t fit growing companies or small companies (depending on what you use). Like someone said before, you can run small teams with basecamp, but when you go into the 1000s of devs and other skills that all need to be managed on different levels over different skills and departments, it won’t work while in jira it does. Some people will say; use basecamp for the small teams and other solutions for managing; sure but then people have to switch environments or you are making custom stuff on top. Why if jira already does that? And you can also build those custom things on the jira rest api by the way.

It is not great but the rest is just not any better (as far as I have seen that is!).