I'd love to see the actual metrics behind this decision making, but it seems like confirmation of my suspicion that most RHEL customers think they are paying fo

I'd love to see the actual metrics behind this decision making, but it seems like confirmation of my suspicion that most RHEL customers think they are paying for the software rather than the support, and many would prefer not to pay for the support or get it cheaper elsewhere. When you go to redhat.com and start getting funneled towards buying a license, the average user would not be able to tell. Also the number of users that care about 10+ year old backports may be shrinking in the era of VMs/Containers with hermetic build systems and elastic compute.