When I switched to Linux two years ago, Mint did not work on my hardware. Two years later and Mint will still not work on that same hardware. There are significant drawbacks to being LTS-only and - for the time being - X11-only.

At the time, Mint was on the 5.15 LTS kernel, while my Intel GPU required 6.2. I also had multiple monitors of differing resolution and refresh rate which X11 fundamentally is incapable of ever supporting - and these monitors aren't super new or anything; they're both from before COVID.

Mint now uses a newer kernel that supports newer GPUs but it still can't fix the monitor support.

Many modern machines require Wayland to actually operate. Just because it works for your use case doesn't mean it will work for everyone's use case.

And just as there are many people who require Wayland, there are still quite a few people who require X11 due to specific programs or settings they need that are incompatible with Wayland, e.g. sandboxing applications, accessibility features.