[sytse]

"I fear GitLab will fence off future functionality with even more tiers at random" our goal when introducing the new tiers was to put new functionality in then, not to move existing functionality away. In the future we might move functionality between tiers to keep the grouping logical but we won't do that lightly let alone randomly.

New functionaly is made iteratively starting with the minimal viable change. But they should always function and additions should land in the same tier. If we missed the mark somewhere please let us know.

[tyldum]

I think the problem for us is that not all users are equal. To embrace devops/gitops I really want most of the company involved through our GitLab instance, but only a subset of the license seats would actually use the kubernetes features for instance. Most of our users would not venture beyond the features of the community edition (except for the LDAP auth we use).

So while we enjoy GitLab and do some software development, we are not a software company. I think this is becoming all the more common.