Old CENTOS user. New to Almalinux. I’ve been monitoring release announcements from both Almalinux and Rocky. Rocky seems to be ahead by a version on the Kernel. Should they be the same, if both are mirroring RHEL?
Rocky currently has:
5.14.0-427.22.1.el9_4.x86_64
My base Almalinix up to date has:
5.14.0-427.20.1.el9_4.x86_64
Roughly, but each project may take a different amount of time to publish a given kernel update. Additionally, AlmaLinux have at least once released a kernel (5.14.0-362.24.2) which is not in RHEL, and I believe the Rocky project are too committed to “bug-for-bug” compatibility to do that, so in such cases there would also be a difference in what the latest release of a given package would be between Alma and Rocky.
I was also once a sysadmin on CentOS 7 
And now it turns out that you can install several different packages with different kernel versions - in AlmaLinux the kernel from Rocky Linux and vice versa
In practice there is no point in this - usually the general problems remain. For example, I have 5.14.0-427.22.1.el9_4.x86_64 (it is already in the AlmaLinux repository), like previous versions, they do not display loading messages.
Loading messages? Is it that you want to remove rhgb and/or quiet from your kernel command line?
Of course, both parameters have been deleted