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Snaps (and flatpaks) have a much better way of handling DLL hell than good ol deb/rpm/pacman. As such, each app is better able to chase the latest version of all of its dependencies, without worrying about messing up the libraries for anyone else.
Snap/flatpak also sandbox their apps, reducing the blast radius of exploited or bad apps.
My personal preference is to use flatpak, and set it up so that it is all --user. With a --user install, you don't need sudo to update anything. Use Flatseal to tighten up or loosen the sandbox, use Warehouse to roll back any broken updates. I don't think snap has any tools like Flatseal or Warehouse, which makes it the weaker packager.
Anything that can be installed as a flatpak, I do it there first. Then I can just pick up my home directory, drop it in a different distro, and almost all of my stuff follows. A distro becomes little more than "a kernel, a compositor, a baseline desktop environment, and some background daemons".