Also on the down side, Ubuntu seems to have lost the plot a bit by adding things like advertisements for Ubuntu Pro. I would like to submit PRs to remove these

Also on the down side, Ubuntu seems to have lost the plot a bit by adding things like advertisements for Ubuntu Pro. I would like to submit PRs to remove these ads, but of course they would never be accepted. We've seen where the road of advertisements eventually leads (Windows 11), and it isn't good. Adding extra garbage into CLI sessions is something that I greatly dislike because 1) it adds distracting noise and 2) it can break scripts. Some non-Canonical offenders include GNU parallel and Apple's cc and c++. I don't like how vim includes political messages either, even for causes that I might otherwise support, simply because it is distracting when I want to concentrate on getting work done. Tools should focus on the task at hand and avoid promotional messaging.