This is hard to achieve technically and conceptually.
First of all, snapd manages the $HOME/snap directory in non-trivial
ways. Some of those include security profiles that carefully spell out
the name of that directory or rules that select anything-but that
directory.
Snap doesn't what customisations have happened in each users directory.
The act of re-locatin the snap directory is non trivial and may include
existing bind mounts that cannot be affected by a move/rename operation.
Lastly the directory is not a good fit for .local/share. Notice that
while a snap application is running it is observing a $HOME variable set
to $HOME/snap/$SNAP_NAME/$SNAP_REVISION. It therefore stores all the
typical XDG classes of content (.local/.config/.cache) in that one spot.
** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Opinion
** Changed in: snapd
Status: New => Opinion
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User data directory should conform to XDG Base Directory Specification
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