I didn't leave Red Hat, Red Hat left me. My guess is that Red Hat's business plan was to be bought buy IBM for a long time, actually serving customers and making money has been besides the point for a long time.

Years ago I was a Fedora fanboy, but then I started finding more and more Fedora wouldn't install on my computer because it was too old or too new. Ubuntu "just worked". Time and time again I'd struggle for days to make something work w/ Red Hat but be able to look up a StackOverflow recipe to make it work in Ubuntu immediately.

It's nice to know that someday when IBM realizes it's "old fogie" reputation has finally become a problem for its survival it can change its name to "Red Hat" and go on to fool people for another decade.