I installed #elementaryos yesterday, and although I like minimal and pure distros like debian or Arch, I need to say, it's awesome. I decided to play a little with gtk and elementary sdk!
I'm pretty sure this is a big win if they change the base distro from Ubuntu to debian! You can't install Firefox or chromium without snap out of the box, and if you try to install them via apt, it automatically install it via snap! I'm happy for being far from Ubuntu madness these years, but now, with elementary os, I'm facing the same issues (worse than before) with Ubuntu!