Reminds me of ticgit https://github.com/jeffWelling/ticgit
And perhaps ditz¹ [+ pyditz²], BugsEverywhere³, git-issue⁴.
As someone who -- I guess obviously -- cares about distributed issue tracking, I really like the direction and implementation of git-bug. The termui subcommand is really cool, and it appears to be enough to push co-workers to try it when they normally push back on "weird" tools.
I think the closest we had to user friendly before was the read-only web interfaces in ditz and BE, but user friendly isn't all that friendly if it is read-only.
1. https://rubygems.org/gems/ditz
2. https://pypi.org/project/pyditz