Gitlab's biggest issue has always been their ridiculous approach to pricing. It simply isn't worth paying ~20-30x more per developer than comparable tools.
Feature segmentation can be entirely reasonable. However, gating something like "linking epics"[0] behind what used to be $99/month/user (now POA) is pure hubris.
[0] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/linked_epics.htm...