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I thought about rebasing from other uBlue-variants to it, but quickly disregarded the option for me.
Often, and in this case too, it's often a spectrum of compromises between convenience vs. security.
I personally, as a casual user, feel absolutely safe enough already with Fedora Atomic. It just works without any hassles, and with the stuff that comes with it (SELinux, containers, immutable base, etc.) I think I am mostly safe.
Secureblue on the other hand is pretty locked down, and as someone who isn't a professional Linuxer (™), I think fixing stuff is too hard (or annoying) for me, e.g. if KDE Connect can't find devices, because of some hardened network connection stuff or whatever. I just wanna watch YouTube and play some games, not having 30 tabs open because basic things don't work as I want.
I just want something that works ootb without any issues, and Secureblue just isn't it for me. I prefer Bluefin and Bazzite because of that.
Also, I've heard about the dev(s) and community being a bit toxic, or at least not being a pleasure to collaborate with. But I can't verify that.
FWIW, this hasn't been my own experience. If anything, it may give of some "know-better"-vibes like one might recognize from engaging with some of GrapheneOS' community members.