And they make most of the stuff we buy, including the climate emissions involved in making them.

Right now things are getting worse in that regard, not better

I never felt that, we spent a lot more time partying than stressing about exams.

I have not really made lifetime friends there either but I'm not a team player. If I were in the military everyone would hate me (like they did when I was forced to play team sports at school).

Yes though you can easily install kde on normal Ubuntu.

Yeah I think it's just a way to try and extract some money from the ecosystem.

But many people will never pay for Linux and it's even causing people to move away (eg to Mint which removes snap)

Perhaps it makes sense in the enterprise market though. They're always trying to push launchpad to us at work and I'm sure this will integrate with snap. But launchpad doesn't work for us because it only works with Ubuntu. So it's just a non starter for us, we have more distros to support. Sure Ubuntu is the biggest in our environment but we want a single pane of glass for everything. More similarities between distros would make that a lot easier.