You've got good points and I admit I'm split on this issue. In theory i would rather have everything handled by the package manager but container apps provide

You've got good points and I admit I'm split on this issue. In theory i would rather have everything handled by the package manager but container apps provide a few useful advantages: - sandboxing/isolation out of the box - being able to report bugs directly to upstream - It's easier to distribute a small app to all distributions (for some value of all)* - much easier to distribute proprietary applications (subjective advantage) - much easier to install old versions of an application (sometimes needed) - it's possible to record the bandwidth/ram/cpu usage; with a standard package that's quiet difficult