I’m nearly fully FLOSS. GOS recommendations are geared for political dissidents and other actively persecuted persons. Take your threat model into account. Most people don’t have that kind of worry.

Did MongoDB really use AI to steal code?

Snap is like Flatpak. So it will store and maintain as many versions of dependencies as your applications need. So it gives you that benefit by automating the work for you. The multiple versions still exist if your apps depend in different versions.