Gitlab has approx. 2300 employees (!)

I never really got why they need to be a public company in the first place.

That's mad. Gitlab feels like software made by 50 people. Consider how unpolished it is and how slow it is moving.

You're onto something, I've been part of enterprise projects with a <10 engineer team that had more polished and diverse feature offering.

Did you typo an extra 0?!