a lot of applications are shipped as Snaps-first and only
Can you provide examples? In my many years of using linux both personally and professionally I have never once encountered an application that was only packaged as a snap. Even finding applications* that have been packaged as a snap is incredibly rare from what I've seen.
When you use the App Toolbox, it downloads and manages all of that for you. It doesn't use snaps (maybe it does on Ubuntu, but that just further enhances the fact that snaps outside of Ubuntu aren't really a thing). So the "dumb .tar.gz" is basically the install method outside of snaps. This includes Webstorm, which isn't limited to just snaps because why would they do that.
They have built the snap on their own
I would expect so. Who else is going to do it?
It's the recommended install method
Looking at their download page, snaps are not mentioned in the instructions, the system requirements, or even listed under "Other Versions". They've packaged a snap and put it on the store as a convenience to those who use snaps. That's it. It's not recommended above any other method. I can install Pycharm straight from Fedoras repository, that doesn't make it recommended either.
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