Thank you, Thom!
I didn’t know that Alan Pope himself had raised issues about the SNAP supply chain. I guess that is why he started working on a tool for checking SNAP packages. 
Thank you, Chris! That’s a command I needed to know to make my own determinations.
I am still running 22.04 LTS. This is my full list of SNAP packages installed currently:
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonicalâś“ base
canonical-livepatch v10.16.2 406 latest/stable canonicalâś“ -
chromium 149.0.7827.53 3459 latest/stable canonicalâś“ -
core18 20260204 2999 latest/stable canonicalâś“ base
core20 20260410 2866 latest/stable canonicalâś“ base
core22 20260225 2411 latest/stable canonicalâś“ base
core24 20260410 1643 latest/stable canonicalâś“ base
cups 2.4.19-2 1206 latest/stable openprintingâś“ -
gnome-3-34-1804 0+git.3556cb3 93 latest/stable canonicalâś“ -
gnome-3-38-2004 0+git.efb213a 143 latest/stable canonicalâś“ -
gnome-42-2204 0+git.c1d3d69-sdk0+git.015db9a 247 latest/stable canonicalâś“ -
gnome-46-2404 0+git.f1cd5fa-sdk0+git.ca9c59c 153 latest/stable canonicalâś“ -
gs 10.02.1 x1 - - devmode
gtk-common-themes 0.1-81-g442e511 1535 latest/stable canonicalâś“ -
mesa-2404 25.0.7-snap211 1165 latest/stable canonicalâś“ -
snapd 2.75.2 26865 latest/stable canonicalâś“ snapd
software-boutique 0+git.0fdcecc 57 latest/stable/… flexiondotorg classic
ubuntu-mate-welcome 22.04.0-d3d4bb1a 726 latest/stable/… flexiondotorg classic
None of those, except Chromium, were specifically installed by me, and I did not realize that it was a SNAP rather than Debian. 
Like I did for Firefox, I will work thru the issues for me to have Chromium as non-SNAP. No need for help on this dependency.
Working thru the dependencies one at a time:
# snap connections canonical-livepatch
Interface Plug Slot Notes
hardware-observe canonical-livepatch:hardware-observe :hardware-observe -
kernel-module-control canonical-livepatch:kernel-module-control :kernel-module-control -
log-observe canonical-livepatch:log-observe :log-observe -
network-bind canonical-livepatch:network-bind :network-bind -
network-control canonical-livepatch:network-control :network-control -
network-manager canonical-livepatch:network-manager :network-manager -
system-files canonical-livepatch:etc-dpkg :system-files -
system-files canonical-livepatch:etc-update-motd-d :system-files -
system-files canonical-livepatch:hostfs-var-lib-dpkg :system-files -
system-files canonical-livepatch:hostfs-var-local-canonical-livepatch-mode :system-files -
system-files canonical-livepatch:run-cloud-init-instance-data-json :system-files -
system-files canonical-livepatch:sys-kernel-livepatch :system-files -
system-observe canonical-livepatch:system-observe :system-observe -
system-packages-doc canonical-livepatch:system-packages-doc :system-packages-doc -
IF I remove the canonical-livepatch SNAP, is there a separate package I need to install, or is that the SNAP pushed out which was intended for servers rather than desktop?