If the Fedora group starts doing dumb stuff I’ll consider switching. But so far they’ve been rock solid. While Red Hat is certainly a major contributor to Fedora (the biggest easily) they don’t control it per-say.
I’m generally pretty happy with it, though I’d have used podman rather than docker if I were starting now.
Check out Podlet to convert your existing docker run commands or docker-compose.yaml files to quadlet files https://github.com/k9withabone/podlet
Fedora Workstation is what I use for my desktop. If I were to have to reinstall now I’d do Silverblue.
For my home lab I do Proxmox with a couple of VM’s for Ubuntu server for pihole DNS servers and an OpenMediaVault VM for my docker workloads. I’d probably do CoreOS or IoT if I was starting over there though.