The battle has not over yet.
RHEL 8 has Python 2.7 in their Application Streams.
So looks like Red Hat will provide security updates until Jun 2024
https://access.redhat.com/node/4079021
There was some mention somewhere that RH will support the python 2.7 appstream for RHEL 8 as long as RHEL 7.x is supported. Which coincidentally is June 2024, so, yeah.