If you are a Linux distribution maintainer, please understand what all of
    these solutions are trying to accomplish. All your hard work in building
    your software repository, maintaining your libraries, testing countless
    system configurations, designing a consistent user experience… they are
    trying to throw all of that away. Every single one of these runtime packaging
    mechanisms is trying to subvert the operating system, replacing as much as
    they can with their own. Why would you support this?

Uh, because User Freedom™? Or are we supposed to consume Linux applications exclusively via the maintainer-supplied packages? Also, is this part: "testing countless system configurations, designing a consistent user experience", ― something that actually happens? Given the example in this very article about Fedora going to auto-convert all its rpm packages to Flatpak it sounds, as the youth says nowadays, "kinda sus".