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I think you're reading too much into it. Gitlab's "personas" just seem like a slightly cutesier version of the bog-standard "user story" technique[1]. They've also been around for about 30 years (from a search, I wasn't aware of this before)[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_story

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(user_experience)

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You can also combine them to then have stories like

As <persona> I can <capability>, so that <receive benefit>

Which improves the story a bit imho because you have a clearer picture on what "role" does or can also divide them up (according to familiarity/usage frequency of the tool e.g.)

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