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I totally agree about story points being bollocks. Their supposed justification is that you can measure velocity by seeing how many story points you do per month, but that only works if there's no feedback from velocity to story point estimation which is obviously not the case.
So in practice they just become a stupid proxy for time. "1 story point is an hour right?"
The Fibonacci thing makes some sense to me though - it is a way of suggesting that bigger estimates are less accurate.
Of course it would be much better if you could actually put an accuracy directly into Jira or whatever (e.g. 10-30 hours), but that would apparently be way too complicated. You could also get that data fairly nicely from planning poker (which I also think is pretty good, but you throw away all the information about uncertainty that you just spent ages discovering!)