Who maintains RPM?

If a primary core/base component like RPM is not being updated due to a simple internal dispute between Red Hat and it's formal employee over it's originally owned product my oh my if that history repeats itself in Fedora and are people still wondering how Red Hat holds Fedora hostage after this spectacle? ( we are not talking about some random component but a core component in the distribution <sigh> )

I cant stop rofl and I cant believe I somehow missed this golden nugget from Red Hat all those years I spent crawling through bz.rh and I would love to hear the reason why Suse never updated it. Is it because they are just using rebuild components from Red Hat or was it something else and if so what exactly.