You've also claimed that it's "almost entirely out of the hands of Canonical", which it is not. I'm with you on the "it's not explicitly-for-profit" point at t

You've also claimed that it's "almost entirely out of the hands of Canonical", which it is not. I'm with you on the "it's not explicitly-for-profit" point at the moment, but it is set up in a way that it could change at any point. Whether it's set up that way deliberately or not, we can only guess. Anyway, Ubuntu derivatives are approaching the topic with this in mind. Linux Mint forbids snapd from being installed via apt (https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/02/linux_mint_team_snap/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/02/linux_mint_team_snap/), and elementary OS goes a step further and is working on making its entire app ecosystem flatpak-exclusive (https://blog.elementary.io/elementary-appcenter-flatpak/ https://blog.elementary.io/elementary-appcenter-flatpak/).