I never cared for Pop!_OS or system76 for that matter. Thought they were just doing to Ubuntu what Ubuntu did to Debian 20 years ago. A theme and some different default settings and getting credit for standing on the shoulders of giants, what's the big deal?
But then my wife wasn't feeling KDE, she hates Gnome .... so I installed Pop!_OS on it and she gets it. Just the little tweaks they did made all the difference, and she is good to go. Plug in a printer, it downloads the driver and works. They made short tutorial videos for everything, less than 2 minutes; she watched them and now she is a tiling pro with the keyboard shortcuts.
So in this very specific instance, the Pop!_OS polish, the refinements and the tutorial videos and even having a theme that wasn't all dark mode (which hurts her eyes), was all the difference in the world. I'm pretty impressed and I don't have to do perform system maintenance for her; its the closest to a macOS install that I've seen.