I really prefer the ubuntu way to the Gnome one. Currently, very few actually productive apps use the gnome 3 way, and it's not nearly as standardized across Desktops as the menu bar is. On top of that, menu bars behave the same way across all applications. You click them, and get corresponding actions and menu items you can read and skim through. The Gnome 3 way is a lot less unified, because you'll have to decipher icons and guess at what they do ( save for the simple ones like a +).

This is extra frustrating to me since I absolutely love everything else about the modern Gnome UX, but the refusal to bring in a top menu bar or at least integrate it for powerful apps like gimp, vscode or blender stings and makes it so many times you have 3 top bars wasting vertical space in maximized apps when it could be two or even one.(Activities-button bar, Window title, GIMP menu bar)