If LMDE picks up steam I’m sure that could change. Is the Ubuntu distro so different from Debian that those devs can’t simply work more on the upstream distro (

If LMDE picks up steam I’m sure that could change. Is the Ubuntu distro so different from Debian that those devs can’t simply work more on the upstream distro (or are Canonical devs not really doing much Linux work but userland/app work instead)?