I'm probably going to do the same thing. I have F29 beta on my laptop messing around with it, but I'm at a point I like what works, and Ubuntu works(TM). A lot less fiddling. Their GUnity desktop in 18.10 looks usable (though I like KDE 5.14).

I have no reason to like IBM. My vantage point from elsewhere in IT Ops is that they are as license-batty and money-grubbing as Oracle, coasting on the market share they've had for decades on the mainframe. This proves they've been beaten by commodity cloud, and they're buying it out.

Oracle destroyed Sun, Solaris, Java, and MySQL is only still relevant because it was such a popular open source project (vs. the other ones) that it had momentum. Even then, Postgres got a lot more attention, and MariaDB was spawned from MySQL's creators as a fork.

If I don't really have a dog in the running with Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat, why would I dig into it now, unless my job required it? Ubuntu is just as good.

I don't wish ill to Fedora, and recognize that a lot of good has come from RHAT/Fedora ecosystem. I personally just choose to stick with an ecosystem I know, particularly now that Fedora is in danger.

To be honest, I was already considering the switch. Mainly because I have production servers on Ubuntu and having the same dev environment as the server makes sense. Regardless, if possible I still like to align myself with companies I feel passionate about, IBM is no such company.