What you are "Giving" Gitlab is partial custody over your coding "children". You are having to trust that Gitlab isn't going to screw you in some way or another

What you are "Giving" Gitlab is partial custody over your coding "children". You are having to trust that Gitlab isn't going to screw you in some way or another, which history shows is a "Bad idea". I think until we can get a situation where code is hosted on our own hard drives and accessible on the web at the flip of a switch, we are always going to have this "but you guys didn't pay for x" feature convo. The solution then is to not use Gitlab, but to invest in decentralized services that make Gitlab extinct. Problem solved.