It was the paying customers of Redhat who complained the most to me. They had previously been able to use centos as a test for things, or for places where the more enterprise features were unnecessary.

Dunno how that story ends, I jumped ship. I think they were looking into Rocky.

Treating the free tiers as just a taste of the paid tiers is a misunderstanding of how this business works. It also reduces the worth of the paid tiers. Gitlab will be worth less as a business because of this, but perhaps they're focused on selling CICD and giving up on competing with basic github.

And Docker simply gave up on their stranglehold of containers. Of course people complained and looked for free alternatives, and it will be Docker that suffers. They don't have much of a business model.