What you are noticing is the RedHat “upstream first” policy, and it’s very practical. They try to minimize RedHat specific modifications and instead contribute

What you are noticing is the RedHat “upstream first” policy, and it’s very practical. They try to minimize RedHat specific modifications and instead contribute improvements directly to the original projects. This reduces the amount of code they are responsible for maintaining, and everyone involved gets the benefit of open source collaboration. They have a blog post about it here: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-open-source-upstream https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-open-source-upstream