AlmaLinux uses "release codenames" such as "Stone Smilodon". Why? What is the point of adding English (or other) release labels in addition to the sequential numeric values?

It served as advertising for Apple and Google. All these newest gadget addicts were thrilled about having "Jellybean" or "Icecream Sandwich", while having no idea what it meant at all.

A place I worked for several years used such release names, which did not actually correlate with releases of the sequential numbers, but were used as catch-all bureaucratic keywords which were applied haphazardly to IT developments.

Just stop it.