You forgot the second part:
What is default is because someone has chosen/decided it to be that way. They are not written into stone.
Personally if it doesn’t fit my use case, I would use something else that does.
With that said, I am not advocating for or against anything so it is not political as you insinuate.
I am just saying IF having the option to boot into snapshot is important to you, Linux gives you other options that the so called “defaults”.
All that said, I would like to quote a wise man here on the forum:
Your system, your rule.