This is the publicly stated reasoning: https://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/keycloak-user/2019-March/017454.html https://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/keycloak-user/2

This is the publicly stated reasoning: https://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/keycloak-user/2019-March/017454.html https://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/keycloak-user/2019-March/0... Mostly I think the answer is just that it's a Red Hat project and Red Hat wants to use their ecosystem.