We are living in a world where Electron is acceptable. I expect nothing.

The linux distros are usually not the ones pushing Electron and this is one step lower from where a Electron app would run.

Is “quite okay perf” really the goal post though? Using applications is what makes a computer useful. It’s bad enough that applications these days are terribly slow and inefficient to begin with, I don’t want even more unnecessary slow downs on top of that.

I'm not advocating this usecase for squashfs, just saying that the perf I'm seeing in snaps is not necessarily what properly configured squashfs would give.