Having not heard of any of this before now, I'm struggling to wrap my head around why this would be evidence that they're not good stewards of Redis-the-project

Having not heard of any of this before now, I'm struggling to wrap my head around why this would be evidence that they're not good stewards of Redis-the-project (as opposed to their Redis service). If they had delayed the general release until their cloud could support it or tried to expedite their cloud release by moving resources over to the cloud services, I feel like that would be much more worrisome in terms of their stewardship of the project as a whole. If anything, it sounds like they basically chose to prioritize Redis in general over their own offering, which is exactly what I'd expect people in the community to want.