… sorry, arriving a bit late to the party.
I’ve now read or at least skimmed most of the replies above, and I’m not sure that I would like Fedora to make this an “objective”. Not primarily because of technical reasons, but because of philosophical differences.
Fedora is already being perceived as “tainted by AI” due to at least one other Council decision (the AI contribution policy) and by its close association with Red Hat, which is driving users and contributors away to distributions which are perceived as not drinking the AI Kool-Aid (- whether deserved or not). I fear that making anything “AI” in its title an official Objective would further alienate users and contributors like this, and further damage project reputation.
I am not necessarily opposed to some of the technical work that you outline - making akmods / kmods work better (or making them obsolete) would be great, an LTS kernel might be interesting, better hardware support is always good, etc. - however, while I agree with some of the steps, I certainly wouldn’t agree with the goal here.
On the other hand, reading your proposal, I was also wondering: Why is this not a CentOS SIG instead? It sounds as if that might be a much better fit (stable kernel, SIG support for building kernel modules, etc.). Some of the technical puzzle pieces could get developed in Fedora first, but shipping the “spin” as CentOS SIG deliverables instead would sidestep many problems (and provide some philosophical distance between one more “AI” effort and the Fedora Project).