Honestly, instead of trying to remove Snap from Ubuntu, I'd just install another distro (PopOS for example is mostly like Ubuntu but with Flatpak instead of Snap)
Help me understand. Why would you install a distribution, just to gut what's making it what it is, instead of just getting anything else? Just from Debian derivative perspective, if you hate snaps, why not install something like LMDE Mint, if you need a complete out of the box distro?
Could someone ELI5 whats wrong with snaps? I see hate for them all over the place but as an end user with little technical knowledge of linux packaging they seem fine? I can install them and use them, they don't appear to have any anti-FOSS gotchas, so whats the big deal?
The current most popular distribution MX Linux, which I use. You certainly don't have to, but I would say least start with a distro that respects you and adheres to FOSS standards...
Snaps at least integrate into the command line will. Flatpak running dolphin it's flatpak run org.kde.Dolphin or something compared to snap which is just "dolphin" Doesn't change the fact that you can't get snaps to use Breeze which is unacceptable.