I'm not sure why you think that. Plenty of CNCF projects, if not all of them, are still developed by the same corporate teams that originally developed them, even though ownership has been transferred. Cilium is still being developed by paid Isovalent employees. I'm pretty sure Kubernetes is still maintained mostly by Google employees. Longhorn and k3s are maintained by SUSE employees. This isn't Red Hat's first foray. They bought CoreOS, which is the company that originally developed etcd, one of the oldest CNCF projects that even predates Kubernetes, and most of its maintainers are still employees of either Red Hat or Google.