Not only that, but there's no guarantee that a local ops team would actually be any more successful, on average. I'm begging our IT folks to give up on hosting Jira ourselves because they can't make it work well. Random outages, misbehavior, and at the best of times it is sloooooooow. Just use the hosted version and let someone else scale the infrastructure to support it.

(or better yet, don't use Atlassian, but that argument's a non-starter at my company).