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The two major benefits of RedHat seem to be:
Now LTS is provided by others but the support isn't always there. A lot of enterprises like the support as sort of an insurance if they lose their experts.
Personally I don't agree with enterprises that think that way, but it is the reason it has stuck around so long.
You can add support contract requirements for some pieces of software coming from vendors with so little confidence in their product that they're rather have it run on an outdated dependencies environnement. A side effect of the logic you talked about, applied to software vendors.