Its not a privacy problem, its a software being up to date problem. Elementary is slow to be updated so you’re going to spend a lot of your time debugging and troubleshooting why your wifi isn’t working, what’s the deal with your font rendering, why is the login screen acting like that?

It is buggy. Really old packages. Non enabled deb installation in Software Store. Non wayland support which is definetly the future.

I would say elementary is easy for new users? What did I miss haha. This said I go with fedora or popos for new users.