

You should. Give OpenSUSE Tumbleweed a try. It’s about as leading-edge as Fedora, but without the Red Hat baggage.
SUSE, the enterprise behind OpenSUSE, has scarcely any controversies behind it. It is also EU-based.
Plus tumbleweed works pretty well. That’s my daily driver distro.
Reminds me of that “study” from HP where they hacked a third-party ink cartridge to justify not letting you use their printer, even to scan, without buying genuine HP cartridges and having them on at all times.
Ridiculous levels of gaslighting.