The whine about removing X11 is pretty annoying. Fedora has done the same, and the impact of doing so seems to be pretty small; Xwayland provides the compatibility layer needed, and Nvidia driver issues have been pretty much eliminated.
The sudo change is a design choice and from an accessibility point of view a positive thing - people having problems with typing on a keyboard will probably welcome the change to make it visible when they properly hit a key.
But i can get behind the rest of the critique - an LTS release shouldn't have feature incomplete and standard-ignoring core utils, and the audio dependency on snap is bordering on publicly taunting snap opponents. Also, an LTS probably shouldn't opt for a bleeding edge kernel. And what is the reason for the (for a linux distribution) pretty high RAM requirements?
If someone asks me for an recommendation for linux newbies, i will probably go with fedora (or nobara if they game much). It's been rock solid for me, easy to use for a newbie, and still gives you all the freedom you want if you are an advanced user.