IBM owns Ansible, redserk is saying Terraform will go a similar route. Although I don't see what they mean by core being lower priority than paid. The paid features are all available for free via AWX, which is the open source upstream of the paid product AAP.

Red Hat's business model is "Hellware"--the open source versions are designed to be incredibly difficult to install/manage/upgrade or without any kind of stability that you're forced to pay for their versions.