What’s your alternative tracking mechanism? And what does it report?
Truth is you might be so good because you’re not at scale, they may be looking to scale you up which is great... you just have to get them the numbers.
Jira as a tool sucks dicks for pennies (trust me i’ve seen it)
Jira is however customisable as fuck, so if you’re being forced into it then get admin! Stick to a simple workflow, basic practices. Jira falls short with the amount of munging people do to it, at the minute my team has a 9 column board with 5+ projects on it... that’s not how it’s meant to be done and it drags time out of my day.
So by all means if you’re tracking already, demonstrate that (as long as it’s not a damn spreadsheet). If you can’t get them what they need then question why Jira. If you have to use it then get admin and make the tool work for your current process.
Enjoying my M1 though, and I like the *nixy bits of OSX so it’s an okay compromise.