To be clear - I'm all for Gitlab charging, I think that's fair and reasonable.

However, if they're gonna charge for artifact storage, they need to provide first-class tooling to manage the storage.

My experience is almost exactly the same as the OP's. Huge artefact storage from builds, the scripts to clean up don't work.

> The async operation to delete artifacts can take a while. How do I tell if something has succeeded or failed then? Last time I ran the scripts, no errors were mentioned, but nothing was tidied up.

Cleaning this stuff up shouldn't be via hacky scripts or community projects. It should be a mandatory requirement for managing an aspect of my account that's about to become very very expensive.