According to the article the current situation already is a bit of a clusterfuck:

The Photon images provide many other benefits not previously available to users of Debian images, including:

  - Drastically reduced CVE count (e.g., 100+ CVEs to in some cases 0)

Sure. My company is demoing Chainguard which is quite pricy for hardened images. Bitnami premium reportedly goes for $50k to $72k per year: https://devoriales.com/post/402/from-free-to-fee-how-broadco...