This is what I like, as a user. When it works, and it usually does, it's pretty slick. I hear people saying it only works when things are new and fresh but when

This is what I like, as a user. When it works, and it usually does, it's pretty slick. I hear people saying it only works when things are new and fresh but when you try to install old packages or new packages on older systems, things break. I guess that's true, and that's unfortunate. But things break for me using Snap/Flatpak anyway, new or old. And I find it's easier to debug distro packages breaking than application images. The developer experience on Linux I find is much better than Windows and macOS. But putting my 'user' hat on, the experience on Linux in general is still pretty poor, despite all the progress that's been made over the decades. And package management is one example of this. I don't think it's fair to ask users to work with a new paradigm of maintaining software, even for a "free" OS, and despite how hard it is on developers to maintain distro packages.