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Our engineering team is based in Europe (mostly Paris). We do use self hosted Gitlab but we pay the Gitlab Ultimate license. I think Gitlab is indeed quite popular here, and smaller companies do use the CE edition until they feel they can afford the paid version.

Not implementing everything customers ask and focusing on supporting only one platform/forge and do it very well is very respectable, but I don't feel the explanation given by the author of the article is very convincing.