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> Why would you build your world on such shifting sands, when all those forks could pitch in on Debian long term support instead?

Because RHEL is considered a standard in the enterprise circles, and software may not support distros that aren’t RHEL.

> Or just shell out for RHEL?

Why would you do that for smaller projects? Why would you do that for ephemeral containers? Why would you do that if you don’t care about RHEL support but want RHEL’s stability or are tied to RHEL for some reason?