why the fuck would Asahi go with a Red Hat distribution!?
Because it isn’t? community distro with RH sponsorship != RH distro
And to answer the question, because we asked and because we have the infrastructure to better support their project in a way they only need to focus on development, it’s literally written in the blog post.
Excuse my misunderstanding. I thought that Fedora was based on RHEL and didn’t realize the reality was closer to being exactly the opposite.