I see your point is basically snap bad.

And as a software maintainer who publish to all distributions, I wholeheartedly agree.

Nope, snap is bad, but how they modify apt to slow-rollout updates and bully Debian to offload things are equally bad. They became the Microsoft of the Linux world while trying to replace it.

They are moving with self-interest, not with a collective interest. Considering what Ubuntu means, that's bitterly ironic as well.

Shame.

Some of the things that annoy me re: snaps are:

1. the update process is separate from the main system update -- "close this program to update, or will forceably update in X days" notifications;

2. breaking desktop file links where an update can create a duplicate file and after the old snap is removed it removes your pins to the taskbar;

3. possibly breaking other things due to the way the snap directory for the app is not stable.