Canonical have always said that they're aiming for a general user product, not power or niche users. There really isn't a distro for that kind of user at the moment, but there are plenty for power users.
The Unity developers had been answering questions on redit some time ago (http://gd.is/dgzY) and the majority of people were complaining about it only to find out that the developers have no authority to implement some basic conf tool.