This is an exciting development; having to maintain separate RPMs and debs for applications is tedious.
It's unlikely that the old packaging methods will go away any time soon, particularly for core OS components -- but perhaps it will be acceptable to bundle non-core applications like Firefox solely using Snap packages.
It's unlikely that the old packaging methods will go away any time soon, particularly for core OS components -- but perhaps it will be acceptable to bundle non-core applications like Firefox solely using Snap packages.