Maybe more users of Ubuntu come to realise that Ubuntu is untrustworthy; it promotes experimental clones of GNU utilities - ones that are financially controlled by Microsoft with derivatives labeled ...
Stability is not flashy, but it tends to age better than hype.
Linux Mint will be slowing down how often it releases its namesake distro. We'll still see the next distro not long after Ubuntu 26.04 appears. Mint will continue to support X11 and Wayland for now.