You recognize the feelings of the author and relate to them personally with Charles Petzold’s writing from back when, and say they need to grow up?

I think it’s a little reductive to say the author just wants everything to be easy.

IBM providing 10 years for RHEL is doing most of the heavy lifting in the case of rocky linux

Isn’t that probably why they differentiated them in the sentence you quoted?

Why not just make 10 louder?