I do not think that I am able to add anything new to the discussion, but I still want to express my delight, that Solus, this small, independent project, is able to deliver a distribution that does some crucial things right in my opinion.
The world of Linux is one of choice and fragmentation. While this is in one way a beautiful thing, it also is something that led to Linux being in its own way. Instead of putting a lot of manpower behind a few mainline projects, there are thousands of them and a lot of them more or less orphaned.
I likewise get the feeling that distributions are prone to what in software development would be called feature creep. By supporting all those packages, applications and desktop environments, the distribution is never really able to polish a unified experience, it's just spread too thin personnel-wise.
What I now like about Solus is the fact that it focuses on package curation, on a polished experience, has a rolling release model so that once installed, it can be run forever, that it opts to offer GUI-driven solutions for common tasks instead of plunging new users deep into the depths of terminal commands.
It's great that Linux offers the user the option to use all these powerful command-line tools, but I also think that it's very much overdue, that everyday administrative tasks for home desktop systems do not require command-line input. This was true back when I first started using Linux in the early 2000s and it is even more true now. That the Solus team just gets this is the reason I have decided not to distro-hop and stay here for hopefully many years.