I guess that's exactly what I'm saying. I don't WANT to sign up for multiple services. I consider all that to be chores that take away from actually building the product I care about.
Apart from that, it costs more (I didn't bring this up because these costs are negligible compared to the cost of engineer time), you have multiple places charging your credit card, have to manage multiple accounts, etc.
It's sort of like the reasons I used to state on why I like Ember. ember-cli comes fully integrated, I can start to build something in 5 minutes. Whereas, before create-react-app, developers would spend a lot of time just cobbling together tools and reading tutorials just to get to a certain level of infrastructure.
I don't want to do that. I just want to press a couple of buttons and resume building my product.
Yep! Choice and competition is good! I think it's good that people like Gitlab and use it, just in the same way that there are people who prefer GitHub and use it.
But I wouldn't say at all that it's the result of stagnation as a result of abandonment -- rather, it's intentional selection.
Point taken. Competition IS good (rather than just copying, which initially put me off to GitLab).
And how nice it is that there are good products that fit multiple mental models, so neither of us has to compromise. (Again, for the record, I still host everything on GitHub but mainly am looking to GitLab because their stuff is so integrated).
Apart from that, it costs more (I didn't bring this up because these costs are negligible compared to the cost of engineer time), you have multiple places charging your credit card, have to manage multiple accounts, etc.
It's sort of like the reasons I used to state on why I like Ember. ember-cli comes fully integrated, I can start to build something in 5 minutes. Whereas, before create-react-app, developers would spend a lot of time just cobbling together tools and reading tutorials just to get to a certain level of infrastructure.
I don't want to do that. I just want to press a couple of buttons and resume building my product.