Comment by usr1106

Very weird, my experience is the opposite. When changing jobs in 2018 I moved from Bitbucket and Confluence (own data center, but to my understanding powerful and well-maintained) to Gitlab cloud. Atlassian was laggy, overengineered and not pleasant to use. Gitlab was slim and fast. They have added a lot of stuff since then and maybe smreponsiveness has suffered a bit, but I can't really complain. Gitlab works well most of the time. Recently I have had to use Jira cloud. Much worse than Gitlab. Could be that our templates are overloaded and some extensions are particularly bad (looking at you XRay). But pretty sluggish and annoying user experience. With Gitlab over-excited managers cannot ruin performance by having more and more details added to the templates.