Thanks for your feedback on NPM registry support in GitLab. We release minimal viable change (MVC) and then iterate on our product functionality. Here are some of the issues we have related to NPM support:
Hey. You can probably find my name in each of the zendesk comments/issues. Thiago posted a few for me. I have been very vocal about what I feel needs to be done through my sales leads (my client has a EEU subscription).