I was being honest rather than sarcastic.
Similar to the points made above, one of the key reasons why the store is not open source is because the source code from it originated from a convoluted evolution of a system that was five (?) years old and had several strict dependencies on the shape of our infrastructure, including things that were completely unrelated to snaps. We have a team working to clean that up now, and while I agree it would be much better to do all this in the open, I pick my battles. The snapd source code which implements the complete in-system logic is entirely open, snapcraft is completely open, the tooling we use to generate Ubuntu Core is also open, the testing infrastructure we developed to test snapd is open and has multiple distributions on it, even the conversations around all of those things are open.
So, as a long term open source developer, I think we’re doing pretty well, and I’m happy that we’re sustaining our focus on solving the actual problems we came here to solve, as better detailed above.