Kyle always had some opinions if you deviated from his usage ideas, both here and on reddit

Has the relationship with ublue broken down?

A lot of what these derivative distros do will eventually be a sysext you can install on upstream Fedora atomic.

more in-between like Waterfox

is that one still owned by an advertising company?

I always prided myself on driving a manual, never bothered paying for an auto. Then I bought and EV and dont even have a transmission any more