My pet let-down is https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-1330 this feature alone would make Jira orders of magnitude more versatile.

So much that you could build a totally new product around it :P

Or even just an option to turn of the default "spam everyone who ever touched this page whenever anyone touches it".

Yeah. I think it can be done. But you've got to jump through hoops sometimes for sure. This kind of crap https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Need-help-...

"Ideally, you've used the same notification scheme for all projects and can just go in and find the notification to take yourself out of. If not, you'll have to check every notification scheme."

shivers with fear