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That's perfectly configurable in 5 minutes with an automation.

Jira out of the box doesn't make your company suddenly more productive. Just like Office 365 doesn't magically work. You need good governance, administration / configuration and proper training to make it generate added value.

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No it is not. It is perfectly solvable by dedicated specialist that has long time experience maintainig jira, knows how to interact with jira api, has budget to by licenses for third party plugins that implement such basic functionality etc.

If you ask "normal" it person to do this, i'd like to see those 5 minutes

You really don't need to go through the API.

Jira automations are installed out of the box. No third party plugins needed.

It's very very basic jira administration, and it's one of the more powerful tools jira has to offer:

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/features/automation

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