I loved it, fight me.
And I think they way they integrate the Window Controls and App Menu on the top bar is still the best implementation out there.
Kinda makes me wanna puke how we went from merging stuff together for space saving to Gnome making titlebars thick as all hell even when there's no buttons on them, and that utterly useless "Application" dropdown on the left side of the topbar 🤢

LoL same. It's what made me move to Ubuntu MATE and eventually Kubuntu.

I really failed at early CV building compared to this kid.

I’m going to guess, based on the only other comment on this post from @Blaster_M@lemmy.world, that the “beloved” qualifier might be overselling the level of appreciation for Unity. Either it’s not actually that beloved by Ubuntu users or there is only a relatively small number of people for whom Unity truly is beloved. In any case I’m guessing it hasn’t had enough users to justify funding from Canonical.

In fact, just looking up Canonical on Wikipedia to verify the company name and see if they were for-profit I found this:

Canonical achieved a small operating profit of $281,000 in 2009, but until 2017 struggled to maintain financial solvency and took a major financial hit from the development of Unity and Ubuntu Touch, leading to an operating loss of $21.6 million for the fiscal year 2013. The company reported an operating profit of $2 million in 2017 after shutting down the Unity development team and laying off nearly 200 employees.