VC money is a hell of a drug.
Because it's a meta-market. You don't win by providing a quality product/service, you win by persuading VCs and investors to give you money - which is a completely different game.
You "win" as long as that continues. The product/service itself is just a shop front that gets investor money through the door.
I've had so many friends complain the same, why don't they fix it and why do companies force us to use this :(
80% of users need the core functionality, but catering to the other 20% creates a monster.
So Asana is terrible for software development as it lacks the deep integration for Github/Gitlab etc that you get with Jira. And all the third party offers is a basic sync between Asana Tasks and Github Issues.
https://blog.asana.com/2010/02/lunascript-our-in-house-langu...
Or am I incorrectly assuming that once sentence is intended to flow on from the previous one and they are just two separate random thoughts.
I do agree with your assessment that the UI is a bit too slick for its own good. Slightly annoying in fact.
A specific casualty of this “Remove all the things!” approach is ticket ids. Perhaps the logic was that since you have a title and a link, that’s all you need. Well, no. Titles can change, but ticket numbers tend to be fixed within teams. Without a short ticket id, it is very difficult to coordinate say git branches/prs to tickets. Whereas if you had a short stable id, you can just name your branch WEB-1234, and know it is associated with ticket WEB-1234. Short stable ids also make it easy to make summary tables, text docs, sms messages, paper notes, and other forms of communication refer to the ticket without constantly copying some excruciatingly long URL, or meaningless hexcode.
In my brief experience with Asana, I found it to prioritize form over function. Or as a friend of mine said when comparing to Jira to Asana, “Jira may be a hard configure mess, but at least it knows what problems it’s trying to solve, even if it’s not particularly great at it. Asana doesn’t know what it is.”