As long as the Snap store doesn’t allow for arbitrary repos like flathub and is limited to only those apps Canonical have blessed to be present on their store (

As long as the Snap store doesn’t allow for arbitrary repos like flathub and is limited to only those apps Canonical have blessed to be present on their store (assuming of course you haven’t forked over tens of thousands of dollars to them to have your own enterprise version of the Snap store), I don’t understand how it can even be in the discussion as a legitimate software distribution mechanism on Linux.