Probably the biggest one vs Gitlab is cross-team functionality. Jira is very configurable that way, allowing you to share issues, epics, etc, in a very granula

Probably the biggest one vs Gitlab is cross-team functionality. Jira is very configurable that way, allowing you to share issues, epics, etc, in a very granular way. Gitlab was designed to tie things to repos directly. It does have some cross-linking, but it's clunky. That's also the basis for the cross-org reporting that makes the MBA types happy. Yes, you can debate the usefulness, but that's who is signing the checks.