We are, but some orgs are more cash strapped than mine.

I’m happy for you. Some of us have commercial software that needs a RHEL like distro to run.

Ok I’ll bite.

What’s wrong with CentOS Stream specifically when you’re just talking about POC before buying RHEL?

It’s literally RHEL in the form of the next/unreleased point release. If your configs/software breaks between RHEL 8.6->8.7 or 8.7->8.8… Then sure, CentOS Stream won’t work for you.

If like MOST users of RHEL you build out a config on RHEL 7.x or RHEL 8.x and dnf update from there between the point releases: I don’t see the difference.