I plan on working on the tickets assigned to me on that day, yesterday, and the next day. If I have blockers I'll type up a slack message. It's not that hard.

That's the problem. You have to actually use Jira to get any value out of it. And better use it properly. That is do it accordingly with your process or the lack of it.

In some cases, maybe they would be better at tickets if not forced to use JIRA.

Yeah, no arguments from me. I'd rather watch someone read a book than use Jira.