If you use Jira to track sprints, and you want to view the previous sprint, how would you expect to do it? I don't mean a sprint from 5 years ago, I mean the one from last week. Let's say you want to view stories that didn't get completed last sprint, or you just want to see what happened because you're doing a retrospective. How would you expect to go about this in a mature product for which your organization pays money?
You might say "well, there's probably a button on the current sprint that lets you go back in time to the last sprint. Like, some form of pagination. Or, maybe you can even set a date on a calendar and see the active sprint during that date. That would be cool."
According to Atlassian's support forum, there is "no way to currently do this"[1].
[1] https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/H...
You can approximate it by building a custom query, or going into a reporting dashboard (if you have access). You shouldn't need to.