If people stopped creating weird spinoff distros, which offer zero value except for a preconfigured Desktop, the entire Linux Desktop ecosystem would be in a far better place.
These distros focus on aesthetics choice, but underneath they are always plagued by the same things, tiny maintainer teams completely overwhelmed with the task of managing a distribution. Leading to a great first impression, but an inevitable breakdown in usability.
Every single person would be better served by Kubuntu than Zorin. Simply because Kubuntu has far superior backing behind it.
There are hundreds of these weird distros, targeting different audiences and they are all terrible, because none of them have the actual capabilities of maintaining their distro.
A distro working out-of-the-box for a certain user group is not a weird spinoff. Some people love to economize time; a distro that takes care of exactly that is a good deal.
Needless to say that those details weren't rewarding at all. Knowing them just served the ego of specific vendors, who were more than happy to pull a rug under your feet with deprecations, migrations, and "required actions" I had to manually follow in order to keep the services just running.
Enough is enough. One sunny day in 2021, I started to migrate the infrastructure using a garage inspired approach. Dockerfile became a breath of fresh air, a relieve after the years of convoluted dictatorships. No more dependencies on ever-changing whims of individual cloud vendors, no rug pulls. Just you, your services, and freedom.
I had no prerogative of keeping my servers near me, instead I found a good home at fly.io. I still use Azure, this time not as a swiss-knife almighty cloud, but as an interchangeable commodity supplier (storage).