Honestly, I think lots of people are hating on him just because. Pop is still highly recommended on a random Google search, and his reasons to pick it are legit. Plus he acknowledged that last time the issue was user error + unimaginable level of bad luck, and removing that there would be no reason for him not to use it. Also if you saw the WAN show he also installed Bazzite and Kubuntu on two other systems and got two other issues.
As much as I want to say he did something bad like last time, this time I don't see it, his issues are legit and to dismiss them because he's using an "unstable" (that is the default and recommended) DE or because he chose a distro that is in the top recommendations on every site out there is disingenuous.