Hasn’t ubuntu always been the “non-tech friendly linux distro”? Their market niche was not being light weight.

I’ve never heard of ubuntu being described as light weight.

only thing it was ever described as, is as an easy to use distro for first time linux users… and even thats not entirely applicable anymore

Did someone mentioned Ubuntu was never lightweight yet?

I don’t recall Ubuntu being a lightweight distro or ever aiming to be. It was always Debian with more stuff.