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Flatpak cannot do what's discussed in the article. Snap can and it was started prior to Flatpak. If Flatpak was able to do what Snap can, you'd have half a point.
Nobody claimed 100% feature overlap. For regular GUI applications both work relatively similar, to the point that Snap now happily uses technologies developed for Flatpak, such as Portals.
That's irrelevant. One could just as well argue that Flatpak evolved from developments (OSTree, etc.) that are even older but that beside the point. Fact is that OSTree and Flatpak are vendor neutral and Snap isn't. Attempts at vendor lock-in caused Valve leave Ubuntu and later choose Flatpak on SteamOS.