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Rocky Linux is a fine successor to CentOS and was created by the original founder of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer.
https://rockylinux.org/
https://rockylinux.org/about/
If you need enterprise support RHEL tends to be a default choice.
If you cannot afford RHEL or do not need enterprise support, Rocky Linux fills the role that CentOS once did.
It will not automatically remove dependencies that were installed along with a package when that package is removed. I'm guessing this is due to some historical ideology about how `apt-get` was intended to function. I just typically run `apt remove foobar && apt -y autoremove`.
There is also nala, which _does_ automatically remove dependencies when you remove a package: https://github.com/volitank/nala