Snaps have already taken off in a big way. Many individuals, companies and enterprises have selected Snap because of secure sandbox and automatic updates.
It is just that FUD from Linux Mint causes many HN articles with FUD.
It is just that FUD from Linux Mint causes many HN articles with FUD.
Sure, there are other distros not based on Ubuntu that technically support snapd, but I have yet to encounter one that does it well; Manjaro's still breaks on many snaps, Fedora's snapd stopped working completely for over 3 months and nobody noticed. Pretty much nobody but Ubuntu users actually care about snaps; Flatpak has way, way more support and penetration than snaps do, and it looks as if that isn't going to change any time soon due to Canonical's refusal to open-source the snap store. I don't think snaps have much of a future as a widely-supported method of package distribution if this doesn't change.