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What must one not read. The reason is that FreeBSD develop and maintains the whole base system: kernel + system related frontend and because it's a clean architecture. For the isolation they had jails before containers was a thing.
Flatpak was not about sandboxing, this aspect is quite recent. It is a response to how bad the CI-pseudoCD was for Gnome and to build/deploy apps based on gnome-stack easily. For proprietary product, I still have to see it a proprietary product not available outside flatpak..
Don't get me wrong, it's good that Flatpak tackle the sandboxing question that was not what was sold previously. Also, I use official repos and mainly FOSS. Flatpak won't prevent a supplychain attack. So my trust remains the main repos.