I was never a fan of RHEL even before they got purchased. They've done some great things lately with Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, etc but never really been an innovator when it comes to desktop Linux. I see Arch and Alpine being the real innovators, and projects like wlroots.
So is Alpine Linux. Almost no enterprise I've worked at lately wants to deal with antiquated software as long as their Kubernetes distro is working well.
They provided a greatly improved package manager and package interface. Fedora and most other distros don't even come close in terms of the amount of high quality modern packages available from the official repos and AUR, but Alpine has also been growing substantially.
