they favor ease of use by restricting the user

Never ran into anything like that. I'm hungry for more details.

with snapshot software you can always rollback most distros as far as I know

It sounds you've never done that yourself. It's not hard if you know what you're doing, but it's not trivial either and may require use of a boot stick, dealing with disk encryption through the terminal, chrooting... and that is not the kinds of hoops I'd expect a newcomer to have to jump through just to fix their system.