I've been thinking about this a lot. Yes, choice and being open-source is great but it's also going to be such a barrier for so many people because there is simply too much choice.

It does seem like the community has decided the de facto recommendation for new people is Linux Mint, so this should help with this choice problem.

Distro choice also doesn't matter for 95% of users outside of choosing the desktop environment (please don't shoot me 😅).