I'm a "power" Ubuntu user, strongly anti-snap, but Ubuntu doesn't force users to use snaps. 22.04 has been very invasive by defaulting Firefox to a snap (there

I'm a "power" Ubuntu user, strongly anti-snap, but Ubuntu doesn't force users to use snaps. 22.04 has been very invasive by defaulting Firefox to a snap (there is still an alternative though, which is easy and well known, but still), but the repositories are still there in apt/deb format, with all the usual (thousands of) programs. There may be a few exceptions, but they're very likely programs that have never been in the standard repositories; Subsync is an example. This is a decisions of the developers more than Ubuntu. I can see another case being programs whose developers did not want to update dependencies, but I've never found such case. That said, I'm definitely afraid of a real push of snaps, although I'm not sure if Ubuntu itself will be involved more. At the very end, containerized packaging programs take space, and there's only so much that a distribution can provide (before enraging users).