Yeah I don't see the need for this tech anyway in 95% of the cases they use it for. Sure, packaging is complex but distributions have become really good at it.

Yeah I don't see the need for this tech anyway in 95% of the cases they use it for. Sure, packaging is complex but distributions have become really good at it. It's a solved problem. And for the security parts there's better solutions like AppArmor. For some exceptions it could be useful but not with the ubiquity that Ubuntu uses snaps. In any case I really wish Ubuntu would stop this "not invented here" nonsense and drop snap entirely (and use flatpak only for the apps that really need it). After Mir, upstart, unity I thought they'd have gotten enough of a reality check but they're at it again. And they sandbox way too many packages that don't even need it. Even some golang command line tools which don't even have any dependencies (they're in go and thus statically linked)