@darius They're easily got rid of:
https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-20-04/
And if you really want them to stay gone:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1251809/can-i-completely-remove-snappy-packages-from-ubuntu-20-04-without-affecting-the/1251819#1251819
Curiously, my systems continue fine: Gnome is picked up from elsewhere. I've had to compile one package from source (ScanTailor) and go back to using fucking-ableist-named-image-editor instead of Glimpse.
Snaps can't access global /tmp, but at least with 20.10 they didn't clutter up df output. Not my problem any more