This unfortunately reads like a hit piece with no information of Snap at all. It's like the author did not even install Snap raising questions about the premise

This unfortunately reads like a hit piece with no information of Snap at all. It's like the author did not even install Snap raising questions about the premise and purpose of the article. Where is the good, bad and ugly? For instance branding Ubuntu initiatives like Snap or Mir as 'NIH' and leaving Redhat supported ones like XDG, Flatpak, Systemd etc is itself an act of politics and manipulation. This leaves little room for informed discussion. Linux is heavily politicised with tons of vested interests and thousands of folks and projects sponsored by or in the employment of various players. Maybe its time to stop tiptoeing around the politics and let it out in the open so there can be more informed discussion and less of the simplistic PR driven fantasy narratives like 'fedora is independent but Ubuntu is not' that this article pushes.