iPadOs has window tiling if that’s what you mean by snapping and has had it for longer than floating windows.
And stage manager is basically workspaces by another name.
I think that it could be a case of "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
The desktop paradigm is decades old, and deviating from it would probably elicit negative feedback (as seen in previous attempts by Apple in iPadOS).
> desktop-style floating windows, but without workspaces or window snapping.
In the new Desktop mode on Android, it supports snapping windows as well as multiple desktops/workspaces.
In iPadOS you can snap windows to halves or quadrants.
Or maybe like when the virtual desktop is larger than the viewport? OLVWM-ish.
Well, ChromeOS has both snapping and workspaces, and they intend to replace ChromeOS with Android, so I fully expect them to show up.
There's so much space here to experiment with tiling views, scrolling columns of windows, whatever. Floating windows are cumbersome enough when you have a mouse and big display to spread things out on. I've tried this floating window thing in beta on my Pixel Tablet and iPad's windowing on the iPadOS 26 beta and they're basically worthless. A straight downgrade compared to the existing split views. They'd have done better to just let me add more apps to a split view.