so they cut a bunch of people and abandoned the desktop, https://www.techradar.com/news/what-happened-at-canonical https://www.techradar.com/news/what-happened

so they cut a bunch of people and abandoned the desktop, https://www.techradar.com/news/what-happened-at-canonical https://www.techradar.com/news/what-happened-at-canonical then tried to 'self checkout' the app store "One of the goals is to automate the whole Snapcraft publishing and review pipeline so there’s fewer (expensive and slow) humans in the loop." (from op article). automation should not replace human judgement, it should replace human drudgery.