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My number one complaint about Snaps is that they're not portable (despite being labelled "universal packages for Linux"): they start to work less well outside of Ubuntu, and they don't work at all unless you're running systemd. I find this slightly ridiculous given that Flatpaks really do work more universally - they don't require systemd - and they come out of Red Hat - the home of systemd.

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snapd is a service, therefore it requires an init system.

So? systemd isn't the only daemon-manager.

Is the question whether snapd require an init, or whether snapd should be packaged to work with more init systems?

The point is that a "universal packages for Linux" system shouldn't have a hard dependency on systemd in particular. systemd isn't Linux.

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