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Note that LinuxMCE is getting merged into KDE (see KDE's news).

Indeed, and that looks exciting: LinuxMCE Partners with KDE for New Release (http://dot.kde.org/1187201437/).

That's impressive, and the integration with Plasma (http://plasma.kde.org/) holds a lot of promise too.

Why does LinuxMCE require Kubuntu/Ubuntu/whatever?

The original system (Pluto) was built around a custom Debian kickstart CD. Since Pluto is expected to be a blackbox, the underlying system was never expected to change and development did not necessarily use techniques conducive to cross distribution usage.

Ubuntu is a Debian based distribution that's quite popular right now and has corporate backing (ie, possibility to buy support.)

This is a new project with few people working on it. Supporting multiple distributions would add undue support headaches when there's bigger issues to take care of, first. I wouldn't be surprised if, a couple of years out, Fedora at least was also supported.

So why did the project move away from Ubuntu to Kubuntu, I definitively don't understand that change.
Are there technical reasons?
Is it going to stay that way?