I ran fedora from version 1 though I think version 14ish It's entirely possible its better now than it was.

Fedora 14 is 10 years old. Linux in general has gotten so much better in that time IMO

I didn't fully give up on the red hat ecosystem for years after that I even ran stella based on centos and rebuilt rpms to have software that wasn't packaged for same.

This is even still a thing based on Centos 7 and running gnome 2 not a gnome 2 derivative but actual gnome 2.

I agree what you say is presumably so however Ubuntu LTS/Debian or arch update cadence, pick one, are still better than updating every 6 months for most users. If I want really up to date software I would like to have it now not months from now. If I have to wait I would like actual stability.

Fedora is optimized for testing new tech to be rolled out by red hat not for usage by end users. As it stands you can benefit from the sweat of their brow while not actually using fedora by using something that actually is.

Also note that if you install software from additional repos updates between versions may not be as smooth between versions. If you don't package choice is certainly going to be substantially inferior compared to arch or ubuntu.