I install my OS and gui with system packages (minimal setup mostly) and everything else with flatpaks. It’s not perfect. There’s bloat and cleanup evolved, and some packages I didn’t trust. And sometimes you still need to build an app from source. But it fixed a bunch of issues you mentioned. It’s also nice to limit permissions on apps.

Good deal for them. Bad deal for every system in the US that relies in taxes.

Really?

It’s all in who you know

Not mousing around

The majority of people at Starbucks didn’t drink plain coffee. Starbucks is a milkshake company.