Most CI/CD tools introduce proprietary configuration syntax. Jenkins uses Jenkins DSL. Each of the popular SaaS solutions uses YAML, but the YAML files are incompatible with each other. You can't switch from Travis to CircleCI or from CircleCI to GitLab CI without rewriting your pipelines.
This has two drawbacks. One is the obvious vendor lock-in. The other is the need to learn the configuration syntax to use the given tool. Even if most of your pipeline is already defined elsewhere (shell scripts, Dockerfiles, or Kubernetes manifests), you still need to write some glue code to instruct the CI/CD tool to use it.
It's different with GitOps. Here, you don't write explicit instructions or use proprietary syntax. Instead, you reuse other common standards, such as Helm or Kustomize. There's less to learn, and the migration process is much more comfortable. Also, GitOps tools usually integrate well with other components from the CNCF...
