TBE -- to be expected. Some more transparency and communication from the devs would be very desirable and would assure other current & future customers. A roadmap, changelogs, a dev blog... anything would be good.
Agreed.
OpenSSL 3.x is already in AL8 & AL9.
Trying to Keep it backwards compatible to an EOL OS (CentOS 7) at this point isn't worth it, and is doing more harm.
And really EL8/AL8 is out of it development phase, and in it's security updates only phase.
There is a reason beta's are released, so programmers have time for updates, and not fall behind the 8.