Part of me feels like writing a new interface of what I need to Jira using their API to get things how they're needed while maintaining some meaningful compatibility.
Then I remind myself I'm not the only person to ever think that.
What amazes me is the number of times JIRA has landed at a clients while we are working with them (from us introducing them). It is excitedly rolled out to hundreds of employees on a project eam after they see what it can do with modifications for their workflow.
Every single deployment has eventually been shut down because Confluence can't digest updates every 5-10 minutes, nor can Jira.
A plugin isn't realistic in some cases, so some other ways was found around it.