Snap is a bug, not a feature. So is Ubuntu (or Canonical)...
And I was extremely disappointed when I upgraded my (manually liberated) Mint 18.3 to 19. The updater program automatically re-installed many non-free software, firmware and even codecs without my consent. It also re-enabled the non-free repositories of Ubuntu which I disabled as soon as I initially installed the system. I backed up my files and then trashed the entire system.
