Im one of those people that's still pissed off about when they had amazon ads in the OS by default. Even though it was like 10 years ago. Like, id hit the wondows button and start typing "firefox" and see an ad for a firepit from amazon.
Oh yeah, then i went back to it ~5 years ago until the snap packages pissed me off too much
Debian is much easier now than it was 15 years ago, and some of that is thanks to canonical. Im not actually anti ubuntu, but they will always make weird choices to annoy people like me