I'd be interested in what you liked with other task trackers that felt bewildering in Asana? I've been using computers long enough to remember when window managers were a big innovation but my experience with Asana was the opposite. It was so easy to enter tasks and set them up compared to JIRA or other tools I'd used that it felt like Asana got out of the way and I could just get back to working. The only things I miss are referable ids and some of JIRA's reporting/querying capabilities.