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Hm... But different distros have different philosophies (not just) about updates. That's part of why people choose a specific distro.
Theres still plenty speaking against flatpak (larger sizes, problems with GTK/qt themes, and it's only meant for GUI applications - you still need a separate system for the kernel and lower-level/cli tools. And frankly, that makes flatpak unusable to me, because the purpose of a centralized package management system is not having duplicate systems).
So in short: y'all are gonna pry pacman from my cold, dead hand.
The same goes for me, but with Portage, brother.
I'm not against distros as a whole, some extra work will be inevitable because people have different preferences, but it feels like a waste having a Firefox package for arch, ubuntu, fedora and Debian while essentially all being identical. Indeed flatpak isn't perfect yet, but it works great for me and it's steadily improving