[brlin2021]

This statement is false as snaps also have shared runtimes known as "content snaps".

A common example is the ones with the gnome- prefix and the ones that end with -themes suffix.

[loloquwowndueo]

Wherein snaps found themselves reinventing shared libraries - at which point, what’s really the point.

[Seattle3503]

I think the point is that maintainers and developers now have a choice of whether they want to share libraries or not. Before the only choice was to share dependencies.