As a user, I would have to install fat binaries with questionable security. As a developer, I have to take special care to distribute the application in a way

As a user, I would have to install fat binaries with questionable security. As a developer, I have to take special care to distribute the application in a way that works for all kinds of setups. I trust distros to do the integration work a lot better. For tools like youtube-dl or quodlibet, distro packages work quite well.