Turns out having more Ubuntu flavors wasn't doing anyone any favors.
https://itsfoss.com/opinion/ubuntu-official-flavours-shrinking/
@itsfoss I really wish there were a bot I could tag that summarizes the article for me
@eddiereasoner @itsfoss TL;DR the list of official Ubuntu flavours is shrinking because there are not enough maintainers for some of them. With the 26.04 release, Ubuntu MATE was removed and Ubuntu Unity made a regular release and not LTS. Author argues it's good because it ensures each flavour is high quality and provides enough value to make people step up and maintain it.
You can also ask an AI bot like the DuckDuckGo one to summarise it, though YMMV. Example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=summarize+this+article%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fitsfoss.com%2Fopinion%2Fubuntu-official-flavours-shrinking%2F&ia=web&assist=true
@elgregor @itsfoss thanks! I might look into making something directly on mastodon but I don’t want to pay for an api and don’t have the resources to infer locally.