Is it just me or is ubuntu getting worse? I really thought it was good when it was gnome 2, and then they moved to unity, seemingly targeting netbooks. Now no

Is it just me or is ubuntu getting worse? I really thought it was good when it was gnome 2, and then they moved to unity, seemingly targeting netbooks. Now nobody has a netbook, and they are talking about phones and other such nonsense. I generally run an ubuntu vm on osx, because i love the linux command line ecosystem, but as time goes on I find myself needing to customise more and more just to get a sane base configuration. I really don't understand why ubuntu doesn't focus on their niche - giving developers a nice dev environment and then slowly working to stabilise apis and turn it into a platform. Then they can think about other stuff. At the moment they are trying to compete with companies that are much larger, with much more budget.