Don't forget that the Snap server is proprietary software, and that Ubuntu's snap server URL is hardcoded into the official snapd code, together with automatic

Don't forget that the Snap server is proprietary software, and that Ubuntu's snap server URL is hardcoded into the official snapd code, together with automatic updates, which you cannot disable (except for recompiling the whole thing with auto-updates removed from code). Ubuntu is moving closer and closer to Microsoft with each passing year.