I agree, CentOS was mostly used as a stable distro. Now it's the dev branch of RHEL. And it won't even benefit from being the dev branch, there is no way RedHat

I agree, CentOS was mostly used as a stable distro. Now it's the dev branch of RHEL. And it won't even benefit from being the dev branch, there is no way RedHat is releasing security updates in it before RHEL gets them. So all updates and bugfixes will be pushed to CentOS Stream first, but they'll go out of their way to circumvent this for security patches. Just because of their paying customers. Makes sense but it's kinda funny. The OP is mostly about being a Debian fanboy. It doesn't even consider that Fedora uses pretty much the same level of packages that Debian has and offers stable release upgrades for 6 years now. Because Fedora has no such thing as LTS. But is that really necessary if you treat it like a rolling release? I'm of course a RHEL fanboy and I love stuff like SElinux and yum/dnf too much to go back to Debian.