I don’t think the change would be particularly difficult, nor trivial either. The biggest question would be when to display the jumplist. Perhaps if the number years * average issues per year exceeded some value?
You would need to iterate through the published issues in IssueHandler::archive()
Assign the years to be created as a jumplist to an array, and pass the array as a Smarty variable.
Unfortunately, I don’t think you can reuse / reset the existing iterator to pass through the iteration twice, so I think it requires two iterator calls.