Where I work there is a bit of overlap because some projects want the dev environment to match the final environment, and Red Hat is basically the only player in the game for prod in government. I can see this pushing some projects to pay for Red Hat for dev machines versus take the risk of having a separate dev environment.

Where that isn't a concern though, it will push devs over to Ubuntu (the only other Linux flavor I've seen around here) probably, and quickly the friction in government against non-Red Hat Linux flavors will drop. As an example of that friction, last I looked Red Hat published themselves guides and scripts to get CentOS stig'ed to the level we need here, while neither Ubuntu nor anyone else had automated it.

I, personally, am not a paying customer but I work for people that are using RHEL for _everything_. I would spin-up CentOS VMs for other things just because I am familiar with RHEL.

Now that that way of working is essentially dead, I have no reason to recommend or use RHEL in any capacity.