Without commenting on the quality of snaps, I find Canonical replacing the App Store that supported all 3 distribution methods, with one that drops support for flatpak, and prioritizes snaps over .deb to the extent it will display a snap result over an exact matching .deb result in a search extremely user hostile.

And the fact that they first did it in an LTS release seriously jeopardises the trust is have in canonical. This is a deprecation which may have significant undetermined consequences. This is exactly the kind of change they should have introduced in 19.04 and then used the ensuing year to iron out any issues before 20.04 LTS.

What this tells me, however, is that for Canonical their business interests are placed above ensuring the stability of the LTS release, and that’s extremely disappointing to say the least.