@OrionKidder I think you already understand! The performance disadvantage of snaps has been largely addressed, but AFAICT the distaste for snaps today is very focused on the fear of central control.
@OrionKidder [full disclosure, I now work for Canonical] The intention baked into the snap ecosystem is more akin to SSL certificate management than Apple or Google's control. Yet to make a packaging system secure and flexible enough to underpin Ubuntu Core requires _trust_ or otherwise you can just use debs. This smells like dangerous centralization and it requires a lot of nuance to consider whether that risk is real.