Fresh Kubuntu install, a handful of common apps — and snapd alone is already ~6 GB.

That’s the part that gets me: Ubuntu inside Ubuntu, just to run software that could be installed and run like any normal package. The disk space isn’t the real complaint. It’s the overhead, and the fact that this is the default on what’s supposed to be a mainstream desktop OS.

Sure, I can fix it. I can pin apt packages and keep snap out of the way. But why should that be an opt-in workaround? Why isn’t the normal path the default for everyone?