Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
Ah yes, thanks! This: > The most remarkable potential impact of the change is that we will no longer be held to the line of “bug-for-bug compatibility” with Red Hat, and that means that we can now accept bug fixes outside of Red Hat’s release cycle. So you might say CentOS was a clone or RHEL (and Rocky, Oracle are trying to continue that), while ALMA is a fork (like SUSE, but much closer to RHEL).
Sure! That's likely an accurate representation. I also just gave this talk that goes a bit deeper, if that's helpful/interesting: https://youtu.be/Jjda39dlu7I