Ubuntu is still pushing snap - they still kept the practice of silently replacing apt packages with snaps, I think the default Firefox is still a snap, and so is node.
The Ubuntu defaultism still puzzles me to this day... Canonical has been shown to subject users to its horrible science experiments pushing broken software on its users sometimes even persisting for half a decade or more (see pulseaudio, it was shipped in ubuntu for literal years, and it never worked...). Snap is their latest science experiment.
Though Im not sure what should be the default, as I can think of disadvantages to several alternatives.
