Re: Microsoft's idea of system administration...
"I thought with Powershell they might have gotten over this mentality, but it seems not."
Powershell is a better shell - not a remote desktop protocol. This solution is to give you remote GUI access.
"Anyone sane running services in Ubuntu VMs will be running Ubuntu *Server* edition which cuts out the desktop"
Anyone sane wanting a server wouldn't use Ubuntu. This is to give you the option of GUI access if you want it.