The funny thing about this is that as far as most software engineers are concerned these things are generic competencies. As long as the price isn’t egregious and the feature-set is rich, we really don’t and shouldn’t care if we’re locked in for this. Some tools do belong together, and most people’s job in this sector shouldn’t be to spend half their time fiddling with devOps/project management tools, it should be to make/fix software. If you don’t believe me, consider that even in the scenario that you describe, any VCS platform is ultimately going to require a robust API to support integrations with other tools anyway, which will be orders of magnitude more difficult to accomplish than decent, built-in reasonable ops/pm features. This is coming from the person who typically agrees with you about lock-in. I’m afraid in this case your approach gets you JIRA and https://ifuckinghatejira.com/