So if stability is a strict requirement why are you dependent on an OS that you have no contractual obligation with? I mean if the community OS model was working for the CentOS team why go under the RedHat umbrella? My guess is going to be people demanding enterprise support without enterprise licensing costs[1].

"In 2014, the CentOS development team still had a distribution with far more marketshare than resources."

[1]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-r...