I will also point out that CentOS Stream is perfectly suitable for production use, and I would argue it provides a differentiated
Nope, its not perfect for production use. Just an example of _many_:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184640
Despite the fact that some critical fixes only land into the compose many weeks later, if at all. Some are only in RHEL while CentOS Stream have a rebased version without the fix. Nope, its not perfect for prod use. Emphasizing perfect here. Everything else is corporate speak. Its just perfect to make contributions, and this is the main intention of "CentOS Stream".