Yeah, but Linux Mint still has snapd removed by default and refuses to support it; so do most of the other popular downstream distros (PopOS, elementaryOS) for

Yeah, but Linux Mint still has snapd removed by default and refuses to support it; so do most of the other popular downstream distros (PopOS, elementaryOS) for desktops. Together, they have way more desktop share than Ubuntu does. Sure, there are other distros not based on Ubuntu that technically support snapd, but I have yet to encounter one that does it well; Manjaro's still breaks on many snaps, Fedora's snapd stopped working completely for over 3 months and nobody noticed. Pretty much nobody but Ubuntu users actually care about snaps; Flatpak has way, way more support and penetration than snaps do, and it looks as if that isn't going to change any time soon due to Canonical's refusal to open-source the snap store. I don't think snaps have much of a future as a widely-supported method of package distribution if this doesn't change.