If someone showed up in a project I ran and spoke like this out of the gate, I'd personally document their issue as "Deliberate non-feature" forever just to spite them.
I personally don't care. My distrib method is probably going to be "Grab the code and run it through the runtime or if you don't want the runtime here's the AppImage I guess"
@trysdyn I use flatpak for all of like... two things (SLADE and Randovania), and it's so fraught with issues just from trying to handle those that I can't imagine pushing anyone to use it. Let alone saying it's "the standard" and "the normal way"
At least it's not Snap though
@KS I've somehow managed to never need any of those things. Not looking forward to the day I do.