You might already know that, but Pop is developing a tiling extension for gnome called Pop Shell. I had been using different TWMs for years before I tried Gnome with this extension, and it does its job. It probably isn’t great for people who prefer automatic layouts, but transition from i3/sway to Pop Shell isn’t that hard. I gotta say that I enjoy the polish of Gnome, mostly notification, sound or bluetooth settings, etc. Though InstantOS is trying to achieve something similar with a tiling window manager, which is very interesting, but it’s still in beta, but worth checking out.
I wonder how many users of AlmaLinux depended on that bug-to-bug compatibility. E.g., if you use Alma as testing environment before deploying production RHEL, then the fact that you have a patched Alma is very bad for you. Of course this will be less of an issue for folks who just want a stable server distro.
I also wonder if anybody knows what Rocky devs are doing?