Universal Blue does things differently from traditional distros and their philosophy is very cloud/container based.

They specifically have the Bluefin variant for workstation and software development use:

https://projectbluefin.io/

Agreed. I used and really enjoyed Endeavour back when I was happy spending time tinkering with my system, but these days I just want to either get on with work or game, and Bazzite/Bluefin/Aurora are ideal for this.