Is there a downside to Flatpak?

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Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

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It's great for user apps, gui apps, and sandboxing. It's terrible for cli apps, libraries, development, and integration.

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