If 40 MB is important to you then it seems like a no brainer to use pacman.

Eventually we’ll so be doing this out of necessity. Just not any time soon, not until something big breaks.

Maybe reinstall OS and update bios? I’m not too sure myself.

What do you mean by “bloated”? How many more bytes does the flatpak version have compared to its counterpart?

You’re not breathing air, oxygen is entering your lungs.