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Not surprising at all. Federation is not a feature that their paying customers likely have much interest in... same for Gitea btw. the developers interested in forge federation AFAIK all went to Forgejo.
Personally I think Gitlab also needs a community driven fork. Maybe a more ambitious https://heptapod.net/ could be a good base to start that.
Considering that git already support email based collaboration, I agree that a federated forge is really niche. It's more of a frontend bonus. Which, considering the amount of company still using IRC, is not really a priority in the commercial world.