I can appreciate the Debian base. There’s shortcomings but they are well understood and predicable. A Debian system isn’t going to sneak up on or surprise you. The updater is fucking obnoxious and has no reason to be as annoying and windows-y as it is. And while the task bar, desktop and launcher mostly make sense, the dialogs and windows blend far too much and seem to take the worst ideas from GNOME and Apple.

It breaks my brain how they are structured and predictable on those areas but then shit the bed on the elements people interact with most frequently.

I still check in on it ever few years. It’s still going in the right direction, but I’m really annoyed at some of the things they never addressed.