That’s my hope too, that doing it for Ubuntu means other distros can ride the coat tails, fingers crossed for Fedora
I used it for years and loved it but after a while the reinstall for every upgrade sucked and I ditched it and went to GNOME Fedora. I mean honestly Debian with GNOME is probably good enough but if you really wanted to you could install the pantheon desktop environment
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/
I use this and its worked great