This is a knee-jerk reaction to Gitlab's latest release and in its current state doesn't come close to anything technical teams need. I'm sure GH could build out projects with more advanced features, but in doing so they'd be choosing to kill off their integration ecosystem... when their partners (e.g. ZenHub, Waffle) are already doing it better.

Except all those services have already built a foundation ...

This will inevitably force out GH's integration partners once users start to complain how feature-deficient projects are in their current state.