The way i see it, software which is truly part of the distribution can and should still be packaged the traditional way. But snap/flatpak creates a standard way

The way i see it, software which is truly part of the distribution can and should still be packaged the traditional way. But snap/flatpak creates a standard way to install software which is not really part of the distribution. It replaces all the random tarballs and unpacking things in /opt that you occasionally had to do when installing third-party software. It makes sense for VS Code, IntelliJ, Slack, Chrome, etc, to be in snap/flatpak. It doesn't make sense for open-source software built with traditional tools by the distribution maintainers themselves to be in snap/flatpak. I note that on Ubuntu 18, snapd itself is distributed as a snap, which seems like a very poor idea to me.