They just don't offer the same user experience as deb packages did. Firefox has always been a deb and it was fine. Now, it's a snap, it has issues with external

They just don't offer the same user experience as deb packages did. Firefox has always been a deb and it was fine. Now, it's a snap, it has issues with external devices like smartcard readers and so, and I remember it telling you to close it before X days so it could update, but closing the browser made no difference (I eventually moved to the Firefox tarball to forget about all those issues so I'm not really sure how you were supposed to solve it). So, for me, it didn't offer any advantages over the deb package, but brought new headaches. Also, I don't really like much this new concept of packing all the application dependencies instead of working with shared libs. And I'm not the one that criticizes Canonical just for seeking its own solutions, in fact, I liked things like Unity and Upstart. But for me, snaps came to solve a non-problem.