So I literally ran the installer later yesterday for the first time and I'm already impressed, lol. I'm not going to claim that this and AAP 2.6 Containerized are a 1:1 relation but the Ascender installer completed successfully the first time and took less than 1/4 of the average time the AAP installer takes.

Don't take this as knocking AAP, I still have immense fondness for RH and the AAP product as a whole but this years licensing costs jump might prove fatal.

EDIT By Ascender I meant Ascender Pro, the full stack.