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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No proper estimate of download size.

To say nothing of a signed manifest of contents. It's like 1995-era package management was lost on the kids who built this dreck.

This is one of the biggest annoyances I've come across with them for sure.