[dwaite]

Speaking for myself - Red Hat's package manager cratered on an upgrade in the past (early 2000s) when it ran out of user space, and my investigation was that I hit a pretty core issue with the package manager design itself.

Since it isn't something where I can easily test if the problem still exists, I just avoided RPM completely. That means I have a knowledge and learning benefit in using other systems, and even in learning new (simpler) systems over investing in Fedora.

The split between Fedora and RHEL is also not IMHO as clearly advertised as with other distributions, so I do worry that I will hit a very expensive support wall that might also require me to switch distributions.