Most motherboard options are not great, but you can’t go by brand. Even individual brands can be all over the place between their products when it comes to update frequency and maintenance. You have to evaluate it on a product by product basis. Unless it’s Apple who only makes like, 6 computers total.
You are often best off going with the most popular option sold by whichever brand you choose, because that is the product they’re incentivized to support the most/longest (because it reduces their individual user support workload the most).
It’s a shame the Intel NUC was discontinued.