> Gitlab is still the team that ...

I just don't get why the internet neither forgets nor forgives. A startup in it's early days makes mistakes, the only real mistake Gitlab made was be fully transparent about theirs.

You vouch for CF (and no beef against them), but you know nothing of their internal privacy or reliability pitfalls. That warm fuzzy feeling you have about CF is a result of their carefully groomed PR coupled with 0% opacity on internals. Again, not saying CF has any issues, but if they did, you wouldn't know