Stipulated: many companies suck at engineering management.
But in companies that are good at engineering management, you will often find:
- weekly planning sessions
- daily standups
- work ticketing and backlog systems (sometimes Atlassian ones!)
- prioritization discussions
So I would suggest that anyone who assumes that those activities correlate with bad engineering management, is falling into a base rate fallacy.
P(is badly managed | Jira) is high, but that’s because P(is badly managed | tech company) is high.
Keep in mind that in most "jira-oriented" places (or probably all of them), that task isn't attributed to developers at all.
If you are doing this and development, like a healthy place, yes, 30% of the time evaluating your work sounds sane. But that evaluation time must not be interleaved with development time at all. Any interleaving will destroy the value of both tasks.