I have to use #Gitlab CI at $work, and I'm surprised how clunky it is.

CI Components are not real components, they just dump YAML into a global namespace, needing hacks to customize them.

There's no reusability at the granularity of Github Actions (other than concatenation of bash scripts).

I keep running into dead ends. I check Gitlab's own bug tracker to see if anybody had the same problem: created 5 years ago, 200+ thumbs up, no official response.