What do you mean with 'cannot run it as you wish'?
Regarding choosing features for EE, I recently updated the text on https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship to read "is this feature much more relevant for organizations that have more than 100 developers?". Obviously every features is relevant to smaller organizations too. We make a guess and if we find out we guessed wrong we'll open source the feature, as happened today in this article https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/11489
Regarding choosing features for EE, I recently updated the text on https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship to read "is this feature much more relevant for organizations that have more than 100 developers?". Obviously every features is relevant to smaller organizations too. We make a guess and if we find out we guessed wrong we'll open source the feature, as happened today in this article https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/11489
We think it is great that people have the freedom to fork CE. We open sourced our release tools https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-tools and the Omnibus Packaging https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/ to ensure that people can easily generate and alternative distribution.