The whole point was that it was free. I’m not aware of anyone choosing CentOS over RHEL because of the governance structure. The feature set of CentOS directly depended on decisions by Red Hat anyway.
I would be suspicious of running essential business operations on a free version of a product the company also sells licenses for: I’d always be wondering if they’re going to change strategy on me.
Beggars can't be choosers and I don't know of another free distro providing 10 years of updates.