Long story short, if Gitlab were to use a open source & self hosted platform (like Countly) with a clear mentioning of what to collect and what not, clarifying that nothing is collected which is not anything unknown to them, there would be no problems. Gitlab CEO has provided the right response with the right tone, which is something we don't usually see in big corps. I again would like to stress that such platforms not use 3rd party analytics providers but a self hosted and/or in-house solution.