That is not at all what I meant.

I prefer Debian's community-driven governance model, the higher degree of freedom over the system and lack of preinstalled software that I neither need nor want, and the quiet stability that Debian offers.

I also have just not liked Ubuntu's decisions over the years. Little things that piled up like the Unity stuff a few years back (or I guess almost a decade at this point), the forced inclusion of snapd, that time they said they wouldn't offer 32-bit libraries, the little message advertising Ubuntu Pro in the shell.

I've always felt like Debian is happy to just get out of the way and let you use it how you want to use it. That control is what I look for in a distro. What you call "footguns" are to me just more options for control.

Oh no...

Anyway.

Personally I strongly recommend Debian over Ubuntu.

Here's hoping the sideloading ban doesn't kill Aurora like it will likely due to F-Droid.

that seems to be the case

Can they send me one to review too?

That wasn't my experience. Story mode for the puzzles is laughably easy. I don't recall any puzzle needing Japanese characters. I also don't recall any translation errors in any documents.