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That would make it worse. Then it would only be usable on systems based off of canonical. Not even debian. Snap does have a few small technical benefits over something like flat pack currently. But if you want to just package it and run it anywhere. Flat pack is the go-to
I think you can install snaps on Debian
They already support many repos. Adding Snap does not make it worse for the others.