I think you're misinterpreting the words of Christian. Red Hat (also
my employer, but speaking for myself here) can't and shouldn't be pay
to fix and QA spins like LXDE or MATE. If keeping a MATE spin makes it
harder or slower for the people developing GNOME (which Red Hat should
sponsor) then I don't see the problem in his statement. Red Hat spends
a ton of money on Fedora, and I think a lot of the community seem to
forget that.