Agreed! They are slowly and steadily moving away from Gnome. https://blog.system76.com/post/more-on-cosmic-de-to-kick-off-2023 To be honest, it was kind of buggy last summer but has slowly gotten faster and better handling multiple monitors with proportionate scaling (my biggest gripe).

Pop_OS. It’s the most polished Linux distro I’ve found and has nice keyboard workflows in the GUI.