I disagree, 26.10 has me actually using Gnome and not pulling my hair out for the first time in my life. The Ubuntu extensions to Gnome make it way more usable for me, the theming is attractive and consistent, the installer is better than ever.

It's not perfect but it's a big step up from a Debian ootb desktop (unless you really like vanilla Gnome which, more power to you, but i don't)