[irunmyownemail]

Unfortunately that creates a choice between an app that updates in an aloof manner or allowing it to exist in an insecure, not updated state.

[rlpb]

What do you mean by "aloof manner"? As far as I'm aware, snaps' updating mechanism is quite reasonable and doesn't suffer from the many update related issues that apt/debs have, especially when users want packages not included by their distribution.