Product Leader from GitLab here - In support of what Mitchell said. One lesson we learned from Auto DevOps is that composability and transparency were key. Just like you mentioned tinco - users struggled when things eventually broke - or they wanted to customize beyond the out of the box customizations that were available. That's why we evolved to have composable Auto DevOps[1] and Helm installs via CI/CD pipelines.[2]

[1]https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/customize.html#... [2]https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/clusters/applications.html#i...