Sure - but is there any alternatives? Gitlab does have issues, but so do GitHub (and other providers). If your service is taken down by code hosting going away

Sure - but is there any alternatives? Gitlab does have issues, but so do GitHub (and other providers). If your service is taken down by code hosting going away there is issues - unless you are running a code hosting service, or managed DevOps - in which case, the onus is on you to develop for failure (of any provider)