It was after but like for CentOS Stream the writing had been on the wall long enough; both rwmj and I are in the virtualization team.

There was hardly any new feature between RHV 4.3 (early 2019) and 4.4 (2020, last non-maintenance release) and there literally wasn't time for IBM to say anything about RHV 4.4, considering that feature work for 4.4 would have started before the acquisition (July 2019).

I am sore because I had many customers who were left without a path that made sense for them. Kubevirt is the future but it would be like giving your Grandpop a hoverboard. He’ll break a hip.