I agree, it’s not fair to say it sucks. However, there is something to be said for having a Unix-based OS without having to sacrifice first-party apps. While Ubuntu and some other flavors have certainly gotten increased support from big players over the years (like Steam), for lots of people there’s still no substitute for the immediately available first party apps on Windows and macOS.

It does when it doesn't run the software I need it to run. Specifically Capture One, and Unibox. Both vital to the work I do. The rest of the dev tools work under Linux, I will give you that. But the MacOS desktop experience is infinitely more polished. It's basically what Linux on desktop wishes it could have been for the last twenty years.

It does if you run it on hardware not bought with ubuntu in mind.

To be fair, that's true of MacOS and Windows too, but Ubuntu makes it easiest to try / think it might be a good idea.

I'm curious, for what reasons do you prefer Ubuntu over Debian? Now that Ubuntu dropped Unity and began defaulting to GNOME 3 it's even closer to Debian.

The things they change from Debian are usually things I disapprove of, such as communicating with proprietary services. I think it also tracks user analytics by default, unlike Debian which shows you a modal during installation asking for permission to regularly keep track of your installed packages; and they set the default value to "disabled".