The introduction of a "minimal install" mode in the Ubuntu installer has been one of the distro's best-received features in years. When selected during
TL;DR for those who didn't read the article- it's going to basically offer users choices of programs to have pre-installed where they can basically customize their installation experience... but it's all going to be predicated on their useless snap store. In other words, as usual the best way to experience Ubuntu is via some third-party variant.