[21:26] Canonical will abandon Unity, Mir, Phone, use GNOME 3 from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Pretty good news for the desktop, especially when it comes to display servers. Also applications like nautilus will likely not be individually patched, which is another plus.
I did try Unity a while ago and liked it quite a lot. On a new machine I then gave GNOME Shell a shot and kept using it. Not because I preferred it that much, rather because I was too lazy to set up stock Ubuntu. In this issue, I am pretty much indifferent. Both desktop environments do their job well.
I am, however, a bit saddened that convergence will be dropped as well. I am couriosly looking forward to a merge of Android and Chrome OS, I also like the idea of Microsoft's Continuum, so naturally I'd have loved to have Ubuntu offer the same. I do however hope that similar tech might be possible with the GNOME Shell. I saw it run on a tablet, all controlled by touch, a few years ago. Let's wait and see.