We are paying for a "premium", it feels like there should be a way for us to access our data as we need to. There are marketplace apps that as for our needs (a super small org) the app is free itself, why do we have to jump through hoops integrating all these instead of having access through our data instance already.... funny thing I think we wouldn't doubt to just add and pay for the Atlassian analytics if offered separately. 

I have customers willing to pay for Analytics separately like you would for Atlassian Guard. They either aren't big enough to have Enterprise licences or moving to Enterprise is cost-prohibitive.

The current workaround is using addons to connect to other reporting toolsets like PowerBI or Tableau.

Even if Analytics was a more expensive option than the addons, many customers would prefer this.

I know that Atlassian make money from the addons in the Marketplace but Atlassian could be making more money by selling the Analytics product that customers want separately. At the very least this would be giving customers the freedom to choose.

This is unassigned so I'm not sure who I'm really saying this to... but it makes me feel better.

This will be a great feature to include within Jira Premium. This will give a very strong point in competing with Azure Boards and the whole Azure offering.