PopOS is a hybrid Ubuntu that is pushing the bleeding edge a bit more in terms of hardware integration, so yeah, I would recommend it as well. I don’t like the design stylings in Pop OS at all though.
Also my jam for gnome extensions is dash to panel. I’ve always hated the status bar at the top of linux systems, and dash to panel gets rid of it, and stuff it into a dock similar to a windows taskbar. Only much nicer!