Hi! GitLab employee here, thanks for your question. Someone from recruiting will be writing a more informative response to you by the end of the day. In the meantime, we have outlined some of the rationale behind this requirement here in this merge request: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... (and a little more discussion here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/895)