This is divorced from reality. You're right, I do not have the experience to package it on every distro. I do however get bug reports that "$app does not work o

This is divorced from reality. You're right, I do not have the experience to package it on every distro. I do however get bug reports that "$app does not work on $distro" that I have to fix as the software developer of $app, because "just wait for another software developer that understands $distro to package it for you" is not an acceptable workaround for users. Even something that seems innocuous like, "oh sorry it's not available for that by default, here's a tarball" is too much friction for user applications. Flatpak is the closest to a solution we have, but it has its own issues. It's infinitely superior to "just use the standard build tool like $(N different build tools) and list your dependencies, then pretend it's someone else's problem to solve!"