True, but Wine and Steam are very common use cases on the desktop. While both applications could probably go the snap route, I'm not sure they'd be up to takin

True, but Wine and Steam are very common use cases on the desktop. While both applications could probably go the snap route, I'm not sure they'd be up to taking on then entirety of the 32-bit stack support across all platforms which is what they'd effectively have to do (maintaining the 32-bit stack just on some platforms while using the provided versions on others would be more work for them) Canonical has, yet again, made a mistake here if they care about the desktop at all. Sure, 32-bit x86 hardware is pretty much obsolete. All 32-bit software? Not so much. Seems like the reasonable compromise would be to identify the subset of 32-bit packages/libraries needed to support Wine/Steam and continue to maintain those rather than the entire 32-bit version of the distro.