Your argument doesn't hold much water as Debian is able to package the same software in .debs.
If you just look at the list of canonical owned snaps it becomes clear that every release they move more packages from being debs to being snaps. If the snap store was just for third parties no one would care.
If you just look at the list of canonical owned snaps it becomes clear that every release they move more packages from being debs to being snaps. If the snap store was just for third parties no one would care.