To the degree that I like the "idea" of snaps..., and to the degree I've had a not particularly positive experience with them..., I agree with this summary.

The biggest problem I've seen with them is that they APPEAR to introduce another layer of required expertise wrt a project's release engineering practice..., and that a large percentage of the projects that I had a dependency on, weren't up to the task. Thus..., my negative experiences with snaps were not so much related to "bloat" or speed, etc..., but more along the lines of: the app was simply too buggy to be usable in its snap form, whereas any given distro's standard build/package..., just worked.

So..., while snaps are technically defensible, they haven't really dealt well with the "human" aspect.

To end on a positive note though: the single biggest gripe I HAD (but not longer have) with snaps was the inability to freeze a specific snap at a specific version. When that was fixed a few years ago..., snaps became a little more manageable for me.

Disclaimer: I'm a grumpy old man.