> If you have 2000 SWEs you'll pay 40k/month just to have access to the website. That doesn't sound like a bad deal if you have to hire such a big build team;

> If you have 2000 SWEs you'll pay 40k/month just to have access to the website. That doesn't sound like a bad deal if you have to hire such a big build team; let's say you could fire 10 people, 10 * 150.000 (rough estimate) / 12 = 125k/month. That's a 85k/month saving. I highly doubt GitLab fits the need of such massive monorepos; my only point is that the financial argument is not very strong IF GitLab were a viable alternative to such a big build team.