> simply use Github > Like what am I missing? The part where it's not 'simply'. If you just have some Git repositories, and nothing else, then yes, you can

> simply use Github > Like what am I missing? The part where it's not 'simply'. If you just have some Git repositories, and nothing else, then yes, you can use any of the Git hosting services, and it doesn't make any difference if you are using GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, AWS (CodeCommit), Azure (similar), Google (similar), as a DVCS (using SSH or mail), or whatever else you can come up with (Gitea etc). Most of them are free for just some Git (including GitLab and GitHub). But as soon as you do more than that, there is no more 'simply'. GitLab has features GitHub doesn't have, they both have features that aren't 1-to-1 comparable, and price wise if you use the same features on both sides, GitHub tends to cost more. And then there's the whole CI thing where you can't use GitLab CI files on GitHub Actions (but you can use GitLab CI in combination with GitHub repositories but that would cost more), shipping hierarchical organisational structures is either a PITA or not possible and updating all references everywhere on everyones machines is going to suck either way, which eats into the 'simply'.