True, but it was what we decided was the best way forward with web and mobile app users to standardize how we manage authentication. Does it share characteristics with sessions? Yes and we are ok with that.

Edit: One more point, we also like how JWT's are language agnostic so that we can jump between languages very easily if needed and still use the exact same concepts. Sharing sessions between, say, Java and PHP is not something that is simple/fun/easy to do. JWT's are also easier for us to reason around with, maybe it's just me or my team but I see them as more finite than sessions.