My experience with the snaps was so horrible that I avoid Ubuntu and other distros that install snapd by default. Thankfully, Linux Mint 20 disables support for Snaps entirely. There is a short list of things I dislike about snaps:

- very slow startup time - forced auto updates (that tend to break things) - Snap store is proprietary, centralized and entirely controlled by Canonical - pollute home with ~/snap directory (not even hidden) - badly integrated with the system (GTK themes...) - creating snaps was easy only on paper - hard dependency on systemd

Therefore, I sincerely hope Snapcraft has no future and the community will converge on a single "universal" packaging format. I don't really care if that's Appimages, Faltpaks or something else.