IDE extensions put Jira in your sidebar. Here's why that's not quite the same as CLI automation.
There are a handful of VS Code extensions that show your Jira tickets in a sidebar panel, some even let you create a branch from a ticket with a click. These are honestly pretty convenient if you live entirely in one editor.
Two things I ran into with these: they're editor-locked, so if you switch between VS Code and a terminal-based workflow (or use a different editor for different projects) you lose the integration. And most of them don't handle the "policy" side — team-wide branch naming and commit templates that apply consistently across everyone's machine.
Because Jitly is a CLI, it works the same whether you're in VS Code's integrated terminal, iTerm, a remote SSH session, or a CI runner. It's not tied to one editor's ecosystem.