I see your point is basically snap bad.
And as a software maintainer who publish to all distributions, I wholeheartedly agree.
And as a software maintainer who publish to all distributions, I wholeheartedly agree.
They are moving with self-interest, not with a collective interest. Considering what Ubuntu means, that's bitterly ironic as well.
Shame.
I'm glad they are moving with self-interest, and that self-interest is Ubuntu and its users. For example, systemd the launcher and netplan are net good for Linux.
If you're managing a fleet, netplan works for simple network configurations, and it doesn't work with Desktop systems at all.
For anything complicated, NetworkManager is much more capable and not more complicated than NetPlan to work with.
systemd is a different can of worms. I'll not open it here, today.
NetPlan works great for all network configurations.
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.