Over a few years I switched from Ubuntu + i3 to Regolith to Pop_OS, and each switch felt like a step up in terms of "it just works", like it's a higher level WM

Over a few years I switched from Ubuntu + i3 to Regolith to Pop_OS, and each switch felt like a step up in terms of "it just works", like it's a higher level WM. Regolith, even though it comes with in much saner defaults and basic system tools than plain i3, still requires you to deal with low-level config files for many common things. Pop just feels like Ubuntu with tiling window management added, which isn't a bad thing. Thing just work even more often and there's some intangible eye candy feeling to using it which is nice. It's definitely not as robust in my experience; there's bugs I run into pretty often (lock screen will sometimes hang, dragging a tiled window to a new position will sometimes fail to update other tiled windows so you have overlapping windows or unused space). Still, overall it's a pleasant experience and these things don't bother me as much as having to figure out why my wifi or audio devices aren't working every other week. I'm on Pop_OS 20.04 for the LTS, so maybe these have been fixed in more recent versions.