Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Personally, I see these projects as the "hook" for people.

If I could, I'd compare to Windows or (maybe) Photoshop - licenses are there to pay for the product - fine.
However, if I were somebody starting out, didn't have much money or no ability to _pay_ for those productions, it leaves with me with options:
* Go for a free alternative (this generally means lacking in features, but free)
* Pirate the software

Most of the time (and I'd bet all of the time) these companies accept this and, to me, they see this as a benefit.

You won't find an industry leader using pirated software (else they'd expect a lawsuit coming to them)... However, you will find plenty of people that have learned and grown to love the software through any means possible (pirated or otherwise).
So they invest in the technology that is useful to them and this is where the money comes from.

So bringing this back to RedHat.. if RedHat _only_ had the paid offering and there was never a CentOS or Rocky Linux, would it be as popular in the community - if not, I'd reckon they'd be a lack of interest in it and they'd struggle to get *new* business.
Startups and companies that start to use linux would have grown up with Debian and the like and, when they grow to or are in the position to chose a paid-for corporate license for this.. who will they pick? RedHat? Or Ubuntu or another provider that provides a free distribution?

This is where I think RedHat should support these open source programs, because they get a massive following behind EPEL (sorry, I'm not too familiar with the terminology of this ecosystem) and when money starts coming out of companies that need a reliable operating system, it will be the one that they're familiar with.