Go with Pop I think. They update faster and have more people actively working on it. I used elementary for a couple years and dropped it eventually cause updates were too slow and went back to Ubuntu. I'll probably go with Pop on my next reinstall (I'm in no hurry to reinstall, it's always a chore).

I had the same issue last year when I was thinking about ditching MacOS in favor of Linux. I'm glad I chose PopOS. Elementary is beautiful but the release cycle and the app updates is way too slow for my taste.

I've been using PopOS as my main work OS (I'm a web developer) on a Thinkpad T480 for more than a year now and I'm super happy with it.

i love the look of elementary and how consistent all the ui is but the last time i tried i really missed being able to resize and move windows with the super key.

on pop, super + right click and drag lets you resize when your cursor is in any corner of a window, and the same but with a left click lets you move a window even if your cursor is at the bottom of a window. it makes it so quick and easy to arrange windows that ive never bothered with pop's tiling manager.

it was a long time that i tried elementary though so they may have added that feature by now

I'm in the same spot; this looks nice and it's available now, but the upcoming version of Elementary looks really good too, and I really want to try their mail client.