Thanks for this post. I exactly feel the same. It is so boring that some months ago, I played around with some other distros, simply because Pop!_OS ist the first distro I am using since switching from Mac and I was not sure what I am missing.. Long story short: I deleted all other distros, now nowing, how genious many desicions of the Pop!_OS team are (especially the Gnome/X11 decision for fractual scaling) and how good it is working out of the box while looking modern in the same time (in contrary to KDE where you probably need weeks to make it nice).