I avoid apt because it does silly stuff. Always use apt-get. I suppose having to know that quirk is a con of the distro.

I just don’t use snaps and it works great for me. For docker I add their apt repository and install it like that.

What is so bad about Ubuntu server?

I’m saying it just works, I didn’t say anything about why that is the case.

It just works. I don’t want to have to invest time in making my os work. I want to spend my time on my projects(which I use wsl for)

I totally understand the desire and satisfaction of having complete control over your os but a lot of people just want to be able to do simple stuff like game and browse the web which windows does just fine in my experience.