I'm still currently using CentOS 7 in my homelab, but since EOL is next year I'm now starting to plan the next iteration that I'll use in both hardware and soft

I'm still currently using CentOS 7 in my homelab, but since EOL is next year I'm now starting to plan the next iteration that I'll use in both hardware and software. Plenty of businesses and individual were looking for exactly what CentOS (and to some degree, RH) offered - namely stability over the long term. Lots of ecosystems and infrastructure out there still based on RHEL/CentOS, and I'm predicting it will take a decade before we see a major downtrend. I will say though that anyone who isn't watching this whole thing unfold and planning to move to other systems as a result is probably in for a rude awakening at some point.