Being held back is the point.. WYSIWYM is a better ideal than more fonts, but it still tends towards trouble. It is hard enough to get engineers to write and maintain small amounts of correct comments without adding boilerplate metadata. I think everyone on this site is familiar with gripes against Jira but they are supposed to take a brain holiday when evaluating documentation mediums? Who is going to make sure previous and next topic are correct after the addition of a new topic? The great thing about absent fields is that they don't end up with bad content.