The moment in the video: https://youtu.be/6KcV1C1Ui5s&t=938
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Firefox is literally not in Ubuntu's repos anymore. They didn't want to maintain it as Mozilla agreed to just make the Snap version that works across all Ubuntu versions and anywhere else.
What should the command do? Just fail? Instead it clearly tells you it's downloading the snap of Firefox.
In fact if it was up to me I would just get rid of most GUI apps from the repos that have a snap/flatpak equivalent.
I think people do think it should fail. Snap isn't bad, but when people run a command, they expect it to do as asked, or fail. The fact it does something else breaks that intuition, as it's doing what it thinks you will want instead.
With that being said, it's not a big deal.