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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Some developers don't want to deal with building an app for multiple versions. Sure some DEBs can work without needing to deal with that, but some don't.