I don’t see myself going back to Elementary for the moment (well, at least not until GNOME becomes so opinionated I can’t even hide the ugly Adwaita theme), but it is nice to see a new update.
It’s just weird that upgrading and managing non-Elementary apps (Flatpak, even system packages) is not baked in, tough. But I like the fact that it is still based on Ubuntu LTS, and I still very much like the looks.