[quantummkv]

The main point here is that Snaps take away control from the user. The user has no control over how and when apps update. The backend for snaps is proprietary and completely in control of Canonical. If they decide to shove ads down through Snaps, they can at any time. And the whole hijacking of the chromium apt package to backdoor in snaps without user consent is a move straight out of the Microsoft playbook

This feels very natural to what Apple, Google and Microsoft do on their OS. But Canonical seems to have forgotten that such behavior is what drove a lot of people to Linux. It is never going to be accepted. Nor it should be.

[securityfreak]

Very well said! I am afraid there is a prophecy in your description. I have started moving all of our infrastructure away from Ubuntu at work. This sounds horrible. 2020 has been bad enough for one year.