Partly it is, but there wasn't much hope to convert those to RHEL. The plan was:
1) to offload the production of the releases (effectively what is now Alma Linux). Because there's so much use of CentOS, it was pretty much a given that somebody would pick up the slack. Most of those companies weren't running stock CentOS anymore, they had their own downstream repositories
2) to give more insight into the making of RHEL minor release to CentOS SIGs and to companies that run CentOS derivatives
Facebook for example does not use the RHEL kernel and was one of the early adopters of CentOS Stream even before CentOS Linux 8 was terminated.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fastest-road-centos-linux-red...