Jira actually does a better job of helping bottom-level workers see the big picture than any other tool in its class, because every issue can be linked to any other issue, not just the Epic that the issue belongs to in the hierarchy but issues in completely separate projects belonging to completely separate teams. It's quite easy and supported in Jira to link bug issues to the customer support issues where customers describe, in their own words, what triggered the bug for them. Jira issues also support rich text in the default Description field to write the prose that the author so desperately wants.
Jira is just a tool. If your organization is broken, then Jira won't fix your organization. If people in your organization don't buy in, then the tool won't help them. The comments field that helps people see exactly all of the updates regarding any piece of work - whether that is a small piece of work on the bottom or an Epic - is completely worthless if people still email everybody else. The Assignee field is completely worthless if your organization never assigns issues to people, and it's even more worthless if your organization wants multiple people to be responsible for an issue, which is an organizational antipattern. If you host Jira on-prem and don't give it enough resources, or do stupid shit like putting the Lucene indexes on networked storage (if I had a dime for every enterprise infrastructure team which only offered a single class of networked storage...), then you will have a Bad Time.
It's a controversial tool because it's Conway's Law made visceral. If your organization is dysfunctional then your Jira instance will be dysfunctional. If your organization Gets Shit Done™ then Jira will help you organise and get even more shit done. I'm not sure it's fair to criticize Atlassian for failing to fix the majority of dysfunctional organizations out there.