Thanks, sorry for the late response – busy week. Good point, wasn't even aware that the inherited variable view is only shown in projects but not subgroups. On a quick glance I couldn't find an existing feature proposal to add it at the subgroup level as well… but that might be because the search terms aren't terribly unique.
I'll show your demo to the team handling CI secrets, thanks again for sharing! :)
Do you have an example screenshot somewhere? I'm wondering what exactly this does that GitLab doesn't, because inherited variables are shown within GitLab UI directly – fairly barebones, though, so I'm curious to see your UI in action. (I work at GitLab, but not on this – just a big CI fan myself.)
I'm a Support Engineer at GitLab, and based on my own experience that statement is definitely correct. There's entire classes of problems you simply don't have to deal with at all for SaaS customers.
I'll show your demo to the team handling CI secrets, thanks again for sharing! :)