Hating on Rocky is going to be popular and he has earned a lot of it. He also did a lot to turn around a team that nobody in Chicago cared about and made them relevant again. Like most people in life, he is a complicated individual.

They know what they wrote

Everyone says they wanted a new nexus 7, we’re on our way there!

Because they something to lock you in to Ubuntu. They want Ubuntu to be the only thing that uses snaps. They want to get snaps to be an Ubuntu exclusive feature, and once they can start convincing some random closed source devs to ship in only the snap format they have a hook to keep you on Ubuntu. And they want those random random closed source devs to be focused on more of the corporate world so they can sell some support licenses.

Without flairs this could go a couple of different ways

Download the netinst image. You get the option of installing a de or none entirely.

The Linux Distro version of Artem’s Luck

It's 1a for me as the worst decision in modern history, 1b is legalizing direct to consumer medicine marketing.

Sorry, you need to blame apple for this /s