This further reinforces my dislike for Gitlab the company. This is not the first insight into the company culture and they seem shady overall. Kinda like an evil little brother who'll never be as good as their big brother.

Now Gitlab the open source tool was pretty nice back when I used it half a decade ago. Was much better than using that monstrosity called Gerrit. But nowadays I just use Github and don't even think about it anymore. They've won, kinda like Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm.