Another way of saying this is that flatpak and snap try to solve what's ultimately a social or policy problem by technical means. Building an abstraction layer

Another way of saying this is that flatpak and snap try to solve what's ultimately a social or policy problem by technical means. Building an abstraction layer like flatpak does necessarily entails a lot of complexity for at best a 90-percent solution; for instance, you still have to worry about what version of flatpak or xdg-desktop-portal each distribution has.