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Fair enough on the single maintainer thing, though everything he's doing in that is pretty much just pre-building what you would have to do with a vanilla Fedora install like add GPU optimizations, RPMFusion repos and then uses the standard repos for any installs, maybe with some switches for unstable or testing versions of certain packages like KDE, or at least what Fedora would call unstable.
I was really put off by Redhat as well for my years working with RHEL and the pain in the ass factor of licensing, etc. Fedora is pretty much arms length though.
I think you'll like it, it's very low maintenance IME. Another one you might look at is OpenSUSE, though I frickin' hate their installer, but it's not much worse than Redhat's. At least Fedora cleans that up a fair bit.