RHEL (and co) is largely a worthless trainwreck, technologically speaking. The values that the clones provide are "lets you run your old RHEL shitware from clue

RHEL (and co) is largely a worthless trainwreck, technologically speaking. The values that the clones provide are "lets you run your old RHEL shitware from clueless vendors", and "lets you tell clueless customers that yes, against better judgement, they can run your software on their box-ticking RHEL systems". Without RHEL compatibility, they are nothing. And without them, RHEL customers have no software to run and RHEL certification means nothing.