Flatpak needs to die...

I instinctively hate the idea behind the flatpak model. It obviously looks like an "app store", and therefore it incentivizes its packagers and the developers offering software through it to insert the whole gamut of antipatterns in an attempt to "monetize" their user base.

In addition to integration, I see distros as advocates on behalf of their users, providing the essential service of limiting the worst tendencies and temptations of upstream to potentially start viewing users as a "resource" to be "monetized".

If flatpak prevails over native packages in the long term, better get ready for a whole lot more "telemetry".