I think one of the issues is that recently Red Hat complained AlmaLinux didn't submit feedback/patches upstream to support the OS. When they did that, along wit

I think one of the issues is that recently Red Hat complained AlmaLinux didn't submit feedback/patches upstream to support the OS. When they did that, along with a patch they were given a song and dance. If you read down the comments there is a great summarization by Jeff Geerling that points to the problems at Red Hat that need to be addressed to better understand the process.