I'm one of those freaks who actually liked Unity, especially towards the end it felt like such a snappy and efficient desktop interface. The switch to GNOME killed what differentiated Ubuntu on the desktop for me.
At the moment I'm daily driving Ubuntu 20.04 with root on ZFS, but I'm debating really hard whether I should distro hop or not. I dislike Canonical's insistence on "snap", their advertisements in "apt" output, ... But on the other hand Ubuntu gave me mostly a "it just works" experience on my desktop for multiple years. For a while I ran Arch on another system and had quite the opposite experience. Upstream broke dependencies at least twice for example, so a lengthy session of "how the heck do I fix this" ensued.
... and after a few years it kinda grew on me, so it was a pity that Canonical killed it.