It turns out that people do not love having to log into a machine after a network card swap to get the new network card to have the same name. Initialisation order is explicitly not guaranteed by the kernel and so absolutely does not work every time.
Some real world users asked for a fix. They did not mean they asked specifically for this fix.
There were other ways to handle this.
With Debian's system, you could wipe the state files, and for example eth0/etc would be reassigned per initialization order. Worked fine.
Even if you didn't like that, pre-Systemd udev allowed assigned by a variety of properties, including bus identifiers.
It was merely that Redhat, as usual, was so lacking in sophistication, unlike Debian.