I haven't kept track, but Ubuntu was moving fully to snaps,not sure now, however, if you like Ubuntu & don't want snaps mint Linux is a good choice as although based on Ubuntu it doesn't have snaps.
Discussion
Yeah maybe this is signaling that it's time to move to a different distro. I've only ever used Ubuntu but I don't really use the GUI much. I think most of my GUI usage is for looking up how to do things in Linux. 🤣
I run guix Linux, Peppermint/devuan, mxlinux, & artix/obarun - sometimes I'll install slackware just for fun lol! Oh and puppy/easyos Linux.
I don't use systemd as it's security hasn't been proven & other reasons.