What is the deal with features being exclusives to EEP? I really hate that. I want those features but I don't want the EEP support. I can't justify paying 5 times as much just for those features.
Gitlab seems to be pretty open to discussing the possibility of moving features into CE. I don't not for sure, but my guess is that they try to keep a certain number of EEP-only features to make sure that sysadmins can justify the EEP on the balance sheet, and then move as much else as they can to CE.
If you really think a specific feature is of interest to non-enterprise customers, you should go to their designated feedback location (don't know what it is) and make a reasoned argument as to why that feature is needed by non-enterprise customers.