What is wrong with the Red Hat ecosystem, as long as we stick to the open source part of it? Red Hat's ecosystem has got some really neat pieces of software, such as Podman, Cockpit, virt-manager, Ansible, and more.
None of those pieces are tied to the Red Hat distros, and Red Hat being involved seems to me to be the fundamental issue. They're ever altering the deal they have with their community. Why not join a community that's constituted in a way where no single commercial party can effectively control everything?