I think Snap is a great way forward. I get the argument that shared libraries let you update one package to get a fix for the entire system without relying on any number of maintainers to independently stay on top of security issues, but in practice it doesn't work all that well and makes things more complicated. Maybe Nix improves this; I've been meaning to play with it for years.

From a distributor perspective, I love that it was simple and publishing at https://snapcraft.io/cyph gets us on every distro with no hassle. The alternative was likely not supporting Linux at all right away, or at best supporting a couple distros and requiring more work on the user end.