Choice of administrative services can definitely be a symptom of a larger problem. When most of the services used are unfriendly to the user and one is expected to use these every day, especially with alternatives available, that doesn't tell me they value their workers a lot.

In my experience, their PM tools tell a lot about the possible complexity/overhead of their process.

Jira and the other behemoths tend to come with a lot of process/formality. Tends to be borderline waterfall.

The lighter-weight tools tend to be used by teams that actually run an Agile process.

Software development and deployment process and the tools used to follow (or circumvent, as the case may be) are a large portion of the work of a software developer.

It makes a huge difference in my happiness if I'm fighting with procedures and tools all day, or fighting with user impacting problems all day.

I imagine this is true for people who don't share my process and tool preferences, too.

Are you asking if people care about the tools they're going to have to work with to practice their profession? Yes, of course.

I imagine you do as well! If you were looking for a job and they were programming in VB 6 and using CVS for version control I would imagine you (or almost everyone if not you) would say 'hmmm I'm not sure that's how I want to spend my day'.

I know I don't want to spend my precious hours on Earth trying to remember which markup syntax this particular input box uses in Jira today.