I work at a large bank and we are also sad they didn't release another RHEL compatible distro. We prefer not to pay RH subscription fees and are now looking at both Rocky and Oracle Linux. Can I contact you to share notes on approaching such a migration from AL2?
In addition to RHEL compatibility, AL2 worked well because our existing support plan with AWS covered it. It also came with free kernel 'live' patches unlike others (except Oracle).
SELinux by default is a welcome addition but I'm concerned it will break many apps.