Just like so many other people have stated, this is making changes just for the sake of making changes. The other recent UX re-design did NOT make things easier. Moving the status button just caused me to lose work time in trying to figure out why the heck it wasn't in the top right where it has been for years. Those of us who use this tool everyday have muscle memory and know exactly where to go to find what we need. Stop messing with it! Along with this button move, the entire top row going to the left panel has caused me to no longer be able to get to anything quickly like I used to because I have to expand and collapse that panel constantly - having it open takes up precious screen real estate. This is just so frustrating to real everyday users. :(
Echoing the other sentiments here - this was a change for the worse for me, and others I work with. The old location was fine. I haven't met a single developer who had difficultly finding it, and there were a lot of people who had never used Jira before, and picked it up easily.
The new location is clumsy. It's not grouped with the other relevant fields of the ticket. And if you scroll down the ticket, you lose the ability to set the status. So now, as a supervisor when I scroll down to view the latest comment on a ticket and evaluate if I can resolve it, I lose the option to do so and have to scroll back up.
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