Padding out the final issue with lots of old reviews from early issues was a cheap way of getting one last issue out.
It used to be very informative and entertaining, but sadly has been going downhill for a while, with increasingly niche content with very narrow appeal.
I ditched (k)Ubuntu when they started forcing snaps on users - apart from the slow cold start time for Firefox, it broke Firefox's Plasma desktop integration.
Now using Manjaro with Plasma on Wayland and very happy with it.