It’s not just “value stability”, there’s a good chance that without them knowing some part of their billion dollar enterprise absolutely depends on an old python component that would break if 2.7 were removed.
They know that at some point, their RHEL version runs out of extended support. Two years before that they’ll experiment with the new RHEL version on their test environment and notice everything is totally broken. And then they’ll have two years to fix it which is just barely enough time, as “fixing it” requires buy in and planning and resources from dozens of divisions and hundreds of people.
To enterprises, having Red Hat support some ass backwards old version of whatever package is not just “valued”, it’s exactly why they pay millions to Red Hat instead of running some free Linux version.
They know that at some point, their RHEL version runs out of extended support. Two years before that they’ll experiment with the new RHEL version on their test environment and notice everything is totally broken. And then they’ll have two years to fix it which is just barely enough time, as “fixing it” requires buy in and planning and resources from dozens of divisions and hundreds of people.
To enterprises, having Red Hat support some ass backwards old version of whatever package is not just “valued”, it’s exactly why they pay millions to Red Hat instead of running some free Linux version.