Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't this a tech youtuber? They've also written a book about Ansible? You make it sound like he's hugely important in Linux kernel development or some other big project but that doesn't seem to be the case
Edit: Aha, they're publishing a lot of Ansible examples here: https://github.com/geerlingguy
It expires every 12 months, and you have to take action to renew it, again with a not-very-clear path. It’s not possible to renew early (at least, I didn’t see how).
It adds extra friction: You don’t get a custom ISO or the like. Instead, you have to register your system during installation. It’s an extra step you don’t have to take.
There’s a subscriber agreement you must agree to, which not everyone wants to do.
In other words: Red Hat's behavior here is almost certainly going to make end-level support for their OS worse, not better, all for a tiny slice of their non-paying install base.