SE in Austria and Switzerland, 10y+ experience. I won't disagree with your assessment that the tech stack changes rarely or ever, but newly founded companies a

SE in Austria and Switzerland, 10y+ experience. I won't disagree with your assessment that the tech stack changes rarely or ever, but newly founded companies are still picking GitLab fairly often. AFAICS every business wants their tech stack "moved to the cloud", but infra people weight the costs and still have good contacts to local data centers from the pre-cloud-era - you know, contacts with a phone numbers and human support. Those data centers made it a business to run GitLab instances for you, among other things. A lot of businesses choose a discounter like Hetzner first and then move to one of those when support matters. That is mostly the best overall price (direct and indicrect costs) for the offered value, data governance included.