That’s not my reading of that article. He thinks CentOS Stream is nice because it allows them to easily upstream RHEL bugfixes.

Nowhere in the interview does he say that killing off CentOS was a good idea.

Also, he has to work with the CentOS Stream people moving forward, so of course he’s going to speak diplomatically in public.

My reading of that article is that Greg Kurtzer says that Red Hat did the right thing for Red Hat, not for the community - it has had a negative effect on users.

>_"The end of life of CentOS as we know it had a negative effect on my company and my company's customers as well as pretty much everybody in the industry,"_ Kurtzer told The Register. "I felt it was important to take the lessons learned from CentOS and bring that into a new project... and I enjoy operating systems."

My company immediately transitioned to SLES immediately after the announcement that CentOS was dead. We do medical devices, and CentOS Stream was NOT going to work for us.