Well, I can see why Red Hat wouldn't want to support those old cards forever. Including the driver would be easy, but actually supporting it (QA, support...) is

Well, I can see why Red Hat wouldn't want to support those old cards forever. Including the driver would be easy, but actually supporting it (QA, support...) is not. They already supported them for close to 10 years, which is much longer than most hardware lifecycles last nowadays (3-5 years). You could still build a custom kernel but yeah.