Seems like we're in a period of ecosystems shooting themselves in the foot, be it 'social' media, software, banking or politics.

I suppose, in a way, we have gotten accustomed to a relatively long period of stability. As for what RHEL thinks they are doing with this: every time a (IMO: nasty) enterprise vendor starts packaging their software in containers (IMO: a good thing!), distributions become less relevant by the day, and so does their view on software distribution.