Lots of things from Red Hat are nominally Open Source, but you'd have to fork a massive project to get away from Red Hat's control. A great example is GNOME ad

Lots of things from Red Hat are nominally Open Source, but you'd have to fork a massive project to get away from Red Hat's control. A great example is GNOME adding a systemd requirement. The key developers are employed by Red Hat, and Red Hat chose systemd, so no consideration needs to be given to the possibility that a Linux distribution might not want systemd. This is how Debian was forced into systemd. The projects very clearly do not give consideration to criticism. Choices are made by the Red Hat teams, and that is that.