Consistency with their previous default desktop environment, Unity.
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is unity still maintained?? can i still use it?? when i was tinkering with ubuntu gnome tweaks there were "humanity" icons and they were the ones from unity
There is a Unity edition of Ubuntu.
Not by Cannonical but there are volunteers that still work on Unity.
There's two projects aimed at carrying on Unity in the modern era.
Unity7/Unityd essentially continues support for Unity as it was shipped in Ubuntu and focuses more on that desktop experience, and Lomiri continues what would've been Unity 8 and focuses more on a consistent UX across mobile and desktop.
Unity is the reason I moved to mint.
Ditto
Pop doesn't use stock Gnome, there's a lot of modifications to it. They're also working on their own DE for future releases, called Cosmic.
Linux is designed to give you freedom to change things to your liking, and Canonical and many other distro teams obviously feel they can improve Gnome.
I spent a year using Ubuntu, but it’s only when I moved to Fedora that I discovered that switching workspaces and using touchpad gestures was important in the experience.