This is a good move. And people will figure out that bug-for-bug compatibility doesn't really matter in practice, binary compatibility and long-term support do

This is a good move. And people will figure out that bug-for-bug compatibility doesn't really matter in practice, binary compatibility and long-term support do - if this weren't the case, the whole Debian ecosystem wouldn't exist. Now, this won't do down well for those who use RHEL-clones for the "free as in beer" aspect. They can choose Rocky Linux instead. At least now there's some identity separation between the two.