Just be honest and say you want to charge for advanced features, because there's little money to be made in open source and you're a business after all and want to pay your employees a living wage.
One of the awesome aspects of being transparent by default: taking an internal conversation between three coworkers and making the recording and transcript public. I love being able to share our strategy publicly and talk about it openly.
While I can't change what I said, we can make the blog post more accurately reflect our beliefs as reflected on our Stewardship page[0]. There's no limit on what "deserves" to be open source. And, imho, GitLab has open sourced a ton of advanced functionality already.
But "GitLab Inc. is a for profit company that balances the need to improve GitLab Community Edition (CE) with the need to add features to GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) exclusively in order to generate income."
But they are being honest, they are saying what they are thinking....