I made a similar objection the last time this came up (might have been on another site.) Someone pointed out that they can still be useful for confirming that r

I made a similar objection the last time this came up (might have been on another site.) Someone pointed out that they can still be useful for confirming that refactoring for readability/testability has not changed behavior, at least for the paths the snapshots exercise. That could be valuable when dealing with a hairy code base. Still, you wouldn't want to keep such tests around for long.