[galgalesh]

Centos was mainly used as a "free but otherwise identical" alternative to RHEL. Centos typically attracted an incredibly conservative and stability-focussed crowd. People who wanted all the benefits of a stable enterprise distro but who didn't want to pay and who didn't need support.

Whatever your personal preferences are, it's obvious that this change doesn't fit well with that crowd.

Red Hat has every right do do that change, but we shouldn't pretend that this is a good fit for the traditional centos crowd.