I install my OS and gui with system packages (minimal setup mostly) and everything else with flatpaks. It’s not perfect. There’s bloat and cleanup evolved, and some packages I didn’t trust. And sometimes you still need to build an app from source. But it fixed a bunch of issues you mentioned. It’s also nice to limit permissions on apps.

This seems dumb. I can imagine users making gun designs that look like dinosaurs. All that is really going to happen is it’s going to be illegal to print shoes here in ten years. 😆