My main issue with PopOS is that it's very problematic to upgrade. The situation that really annoyed me is that their gnome widgets have their own special style classes that are not supported by most universal themes, so the only way to get a good consistent experience is to use their default theme or spend hours tracking down the specific custom styles that need updating.

If you decide to go off the rails and replace some or most of the PopOS stuff (which I eventually did), it will work, but probably break on running the next major update. This happened to me twice and ultimately had me move on to other things.

If this new approach can solve that problem, then I think PopOS! will be a much more attractive option. I will probably not go back to using PopOS! (using tiling wms now), but I would have no issue recommending it.