remember that RedHat is now a fairly large organization, so there is room for it to be fragmented.
The fact is that they were not involved with the discussions. They may have been informed about them, but for the people who are claiming that they have the answer to all logging issues to not be available to discuss the issues when the people who have been doing logging for years is not good (especially since so many of their claims that the new logging stuff is needed because syslog is so primitive and can't do X have been shown to be wrong)