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If Ubuntu wants to go all-in on snaps, I expect them to do the same amount of vetting, testing, and maintenance that they do in the official Ubuntu repos.
But I think the real point here is to save themselves that work. The current Snap store is a mess, with multiple versions of the same apps by different packagers/maintainers. If upstream protects adopted snaps and provided official distro-agnostic packages, then that'd be cool, but that's not what I'm seeing today, by and large.
My general experience with Snaps has been poor. I don't know if Snaps are there future, but I know for damn sure that they're not the present and I'm not motivated to go any further into the Snap ecosystem until they clean up this mess
Also it needs to be mentioned that snap store don't force any styling guidelines where it comes to description of packages. Most apps have names that are not styled properly, have low quality icons etc. This is a deal breaker for me