gitlab is pretty nice mostly because of the CI system and runners, the groupings of things, the permissions (deploy tokens etc;) and the way it handles merge requests.
Jira is used mostly because it's "okay" at doing things the agile way, it's impressive how few things actually have the concept of a backlog or sprints (Asana for instance has neither despite costing 4x as much).
I can't honestly find a decent replacement for confluence that would allow non-techs to also write documents. :\
I would hate myself for saying all this 4 years ago, but unfortunately I am now in a position where I have the ability to inflict my personal tool choices on people and these are the least bad options sadly.
Jira is used mostly because it's "okay" at doing things the agile way, it's impressive how few things actually have the concept of a backlog or sprints (Asana for instance has neither despite costing 4x as much).
I can't honestly find a decent replacement for confluence that would allow non-techs to also write documents. :\
I would hate myself for saying all this 4 years ago, but unfortunately I am now in a position where I have the ability to inflict my personal tool choices on people and these are the least bad options sadly.