The value of CentOS is that it's provides a free and stable RedHat build.

Nobody needs or wants another Fedora.

This seems like a round-a-bout way of killing the only RedHat alternative to the expensive commercial version of RedHat.

If there is no Centos9, I'll probably move over to a Debian alternative. Just because of the principle of the thing. Better that than validate the "acquire and destroy" strategy that seems to be used by every big tech company like IBM, Microsoft, Facebook and Google.