They put out LTS releases which are nice for a home server where you need relatively recent packages and a couple of years of support so that you don’t have to babysit it too much. On a server it’s much closer to Debian experience as you don’t have to deal with snap, flatpak and all that weirdness.

can't pull Ubuntu away from all the plebs who think it's the best OS in the world.

meh, at least it's not Microsoft. not much better, but still slightly better.

You'd be surprised