The one place I worked that used Jira was a small-but-not-tiny company (about 15 devs at the time). The only people who actually used Jira were the managers. Developers got printed stories. These were used for planning, and were printed on cards and taped to a white board when ready. Developer would pull a card to work on, and return it to the manager when it was complete. The manager did all the status updates and reporting to upper management.

IDK if this was to cheap out on the licensing with a minimal number of users, or if it was to insulate the developers from the experience of using Jira. Perhaps some of both.

Clearly that usage pattern would only scale so far.