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Ubuntu was a critical part of the Linux ecosystem for many years. It is probably the first distro of many of us (myself included).
But last ~10 years have not been kind to Canonical. They are losing ground everywhere, and they are no longer the engine of Linux adoption that they used to be. Others have taken over.
I always felt like Canonical had a big problem with going all-in on something they thought was neat (the Unity desktop, Mir, that thing where phones and desktops were supposed to merge, now Snaps) and letting everything else stagnate, then getting the thing they were working on to the point where it was almost good, then dumping it and going after the next shiny thing.
But yeah these days I think things like Pop!OS and Mint are better Ubuntus than Ubuntu is.