Personally, I enjoyed using Git with e-mail when Wine still used it. That said, the major improvement of moving to GitLab is that it's now easier to track changesets individually, as there is now a single place to look for a given changeset, rather than having to follow chains of e-mails.
And that having been said, I really GitHub/GitLab/etc. could move on from the pull request model and into a more change-oriented model like Gerrit or Phabricator. These are clearly better models in my opinion, and for most uses it's not even dramatically different.
And that having been said, I really GitHub/GitLab/etc. could move on from the pull request model and into a more change-oriented model like Gerrit or Phabricator. These are clearly better models in my opinion, and for most uses it's not even dramatically different.