It's the exclusivity to snaps and nothing else that bothers me. Like, you don't have a choice but to use snap for some packages.
Seems like a weird take. Before snap came along this was true to the same extent of Ubuntu with Debs. The fact that they're migrating some of the packages they maintain (that also happen to be the trickier ones to maintain as deb files) to snaps doesn't prevent you from getting another repo that has the package as a deb and using that any more than your distro not having the latest version of an app prevents you from downloading and building a tarball.