I like the topic of the latest article, but I'd like to make 3 critiques regarding the content if I may.

1. Mark states crypto is a "cesspool of ignoble intentions". That could be interpreted as "There is a lot of scamming going on in crypto", and would be very True. Mark's choice of ambiguous words certainly could be made more clear. I don't really know what his opinion of crypto is in general use.

2. Mark wants to begin "forcing KYC"? Maybe. Or maybe some other verification is needed? We don't know. What we do know, is that absolutely more verification of some type is needed to prevent imposters. Exodus never uploaded their program to the snap store. The malicious snap package was someone pretending to be the creators of Exodus.

3. Canonical wants to "pretend Snaps are all about cross-platform distribution"? I'm not a fan of Snaps. I can't even use Snaps on NixOS. But there is something Flatpak and AppImage can't do that Snaps can- Snaps can run a background service. Snaps are good at non-GUI software. Is Ubuntu intentionally making the GUI Snaps slower than they could be? Probably, not. But that's the good thing about FOSS technologies. If we don't like the Snap GUI package, then we can still use the Flatpak or AppImage instead.

I try to give this critique fairly and with good intentions. I'm thankful for the article, and the light it shines on the problem of the Snap store. Cheers 😊