Nope, didn't mean to imply there was! GitLab certainly seems to have replicated a lot of the good ideas from GitHub, I just wanted to point out that it now seems to be going the other direction as well.

Except GitLab has an open-source self-hosted option and an entire DevOps pipeline with Kubernetes integration and many more features features than GitHub. They also provided free private repos long before GitHub.

So what you're saying is people have options for their VCS? Great! :)

No, I'm suggesting GitLab is not close to an identical clone. It is much better with many many more features and reviewable source code.