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Snaps is just the latest in a long line of failed attempts to differentiate their desktop.

Give it a few years and they will switch to Flatpack.

> Why did Ubuntu hit 18.04 and then decide to only make things worse in future?

Oh, ubuntu beem making decisions that many users think make things worse since it was first released

and yet it's still quite popular

I run selenium for a ton of tests and snap + chromedriver is easily one of the worst parts of the experience.

Same. I had sucess with https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium

Docker + Selenium? Now I have two problems.

Well, hello! Nice to meet you! I do know what snaps are and I do prefer them in some situations. And yes, I do like my snaps like Nextcloud and ffmpeg for example.