another "snap bad" post

https://lemmy.zip/post/51140263

I just don’t see the point of them when there are flatpaks. I’m not super knowledgeable on Snaps so maybe there’s some huge benefit I don’t know about, but they always just seemed like a worse version of flatpak to me.
The huge benefit (to canonical) is that they control the store/repo.
How exactly is that a benefit?

I should have added a /s.

Canonical controls the back end and that (along with how canonical has treated snaps in Ubuntu pulling them in with apt calls) are two major reasons snaps get (justified) hate