Ubuntu Touch was amazing, way ahead of Android and iOS when it came out, the touch gestures were so much better than what was available.

But then it's just maintained by very few people nowadays and half abandoned.

You can buy a used Pixel 3a if you want to toy around with it, they cost nothing.

That's so sad. I even clicked around on their page to find out how I could contribute as a developer, but their gitlab repo seems abandoned since way before the latest release and all "how to get involved" articles eventually point to 404 pages.