I feel like this is turning into a general “let’s complain about everything wrong about Snaps, including apparently reporting bugs on some” thread which is kind of going against the topic at hand and inconsistent with @ian-weisser’s appeal to stay on topic.
Agreed. It would, IMO, be easier for the thread to stay on track if there were momentum or direction of some sort from folks in some specific groups mentioned above:
Canonical Snap packagers
Canonical Snap infrastructure builders/designers
Respectfully to all those involved, I’ve not seen any obvious engagement or acknowledgment from folks within either of those groups, on either this thread or the Snapcraft Discourse thread, in the ~3 weeks that the threads have been open.
The topic at hand seems like one that couldn’t really move forward without such engagement or acknowledgment, since I would assume there are decisions involved that would be owned by those groups and either implemented by them or explicitly empowered to community members.
(This is all just uninformed external observation, anyone with real hands-on knowledge please correct!)