I don't think it's a big deal, and them going all-in on flatpak for user-facing GUI applications makes sense to me. If the resources freed up by this go towards

I don't think it's a big deal, and them going all-in on flatpak for user-facing GUI applications makes sense to me. If the resources freed up by this go towards improvements to the base OS and DE I think that's a good thing in the long run.