Comment by KronisLV

Depends on the team and which of the actual features you use! As someone who introduced GitLab CI to my org as well, but runs most of my private stuff on Gitea + WoodpeckerCI, based on what I've seen there are A LOT of workflows that don't need that much out of GitLab, especially when you can move a lot of complexity into your CI solution alongside some light patches to the forge if necessary. Hell, I've seen people who haven't migrated off of SVN do okay (though personally I wouldn't punish myself like that).