This is why we left Gitlab.

DevOps become center part of Gitlab which we don’t use and need any of those feature. We all need a code storage, code review, issue tracking and the CI/CD. We would pay advance features of those (epics, multiple assignee, etc) but we have to pay super expensive top tier which includes unnecessary DevOps stuff. We left and happy so far.

We are using Kubernetes and custom DevOps tools but don’t want to handle things the way that Gitlab does.