100% agree, and made pretty much the same point in the LTT forum a while back. Flavor of the month people annoy tf out of me, I've been a linux user for over a decade and have never even thought of recommending something outside of the big 3 (debian/ubuntu (or mint if that's your thing), fedora, arch)

Tried and true distros are the only real option and IMO the difference between distros once everything is configured is mininal