I love cinnamon, but lately it has fallen behind, sadly. I kept using it for a long time, but KDE was just so much better in a few important ways (fractional scaling, multi monitor performance, battery life for some reason) that I had to switch. I still much prefer the general feeling of cinnamon and miss it.
A batteries includes, newbie friendly OS. Mint in 2013 was a distro that included non-free codecs which allowed it to do things that Ubuntu couldn't out of the box. Pop!_OS now includes Nvidea drivers and other tweaks that make it a more friendly experience for users generally and people new to Linux specifically.