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Thanks for the blog post. Ep383 of the Linux Unplugged podcast [1] also went into detail with CentOS members.

What CentOS gave you until Stream was (with some delay) the "same" set of packages that RedHat released in RHEL, which was (hopefully exhaustively) tested by RedHat QA, including making sure that packages interact in a sane way. That's what earned RHEL (and by extension CentOS) that designation of stability. By virtue of being upstream, CentOS Stream could have a lot more updates (the kind that would previously be internal to RedHat). I doubt same level of QA can/will be invested for each update state (if it could be, RHEL would probably be a rolling distro). If you don't have a QA safety net of your own, the risk is higher with Stream vs 8.

You could hack point releases into Stream: wait for RHEL release, then dnf versionlock Stream packages to the same release versions as RHEL (assuming you can map versions of modular packages).

[1] https://linuxunplugged.com/383