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You make a good point. I imagine RedHat is doing this less because of Rocky/Alma, and more so because of Oracle.
Oracle might be another one, though I guess that as weird as that sounds, at least they add value by providing their "unbreakable enterprise kernel".
I guess Oracle will be hit the least as they do have the manpower to make sure their distribution stays RHEL compatible, but at a higher cost.