linuxmemes

I think the main issue here is they are telling users the software is safe without any due diligence.

Closed garden has the same problem too, it's not immune

Canonical is a profitable corporation trying to convince people to use their actual closed garden software repository but they can't even be bothered to do even the most basic of sanity checks to prevent obvious scams from appearing on their store. Stop making excuses for them.

Sandboxing does nothing for social-engineering attacks, which is what many of the malicious snaps were designed for.

And the thing that makes the Snap Store uniquely bad is that there's no human review. Anyone can throw up a malicious snap, and there are very good odds that it'll get served there. Even the Flathub, a community-run project, has human reviews before new apps get published. Canonical, despite having money and resources that community projects don't, can't seem to be bothered to take basic steps to protect their users.

Given that the snap store is a closed source proprietary component, I'd argue that snaps are a walled garden