this is one of those; ignorance is bliss. i havent noticed snap being slower and now I risk noticing and getting annoyed over it.
Startup times didn't bother me too much, but nowadays it does, specially for things that my brain assumes that should be fast. This is why, for example, both my Neovim and Zsh configuration is tuned to start in <0.1s:
time zsh -c exit
zsh -c exit 0.00s user 0.00s system 84% cpu 0.007 total
time nvim -c qall
nvim -c qall 0.07s user 0.02s system 100% cpu 0.081 total
It does makes a massive difference, for example spawning a new shell is instantaneous and when I know that I will make some small changes I much prefer to open a file in Neovim than Emacs (my main editor/IDE nowadays).