This sort of thing must risk harming Canonical's reputation, so you'd think they'd want to use whatever leverage they have to enforce better practices.
It is an official flavor[1], that is, maintained as a community effort, but endorsed by Ubuntu. The related packages are hosted in Ubuntu's universe repository[2]. There is indeed a risk of reputation damage.
This sort of thing must risk harming Canonical's reputation, so you'd think they'd want to use whatever leverage they have to enforce better practices.