[hurryer]

Snaps move the packaging burden from the distribution to the software maker, which is how it should be. It's the only scalable way.

Imagine Microsoft having to package the millions of distinct Windows applications.

[PlutoIsAPlanet]

But they also move the gatekeeper from the distribution to Canonical, and only Canonical (sideloading does not count when the repo is hard coded and server is closed source).