Exactly this.
The revelations with Snowden were in the details of things people already knew at a high level. People knew about the NSA's Echelon program, but didn't know things like how they tapped the un-encrypted intra-datacenter links.
I think everyone's talking past each other. QAnon, "the Deep State", Snowden, Hunter Biden's emails, Twitter's censorship, and the media's non-reporting are all barely related, here. Let's maybe talk about things on a case-by-case, factual basis.
Or you'll have to remind me where Snowden, possibly the most thorough and careful whistleblower of the last century, talked about the "deep state" or any of that QAnon shit.