You all must be living in a bit of Linux bubble. I try to stay updated on the entire family tree and distrohop to stay apprised on the latest developments.

Flatpaks and snaps are highly used on a daily basis now by the majority of distros when their repositories are out of date, or do not have what they need. Many large companies would now rather package up once and ship everywhere. Than to deal with one Linux distros package management process over the other and miss out on valuable market share opportunities.

Just use logic and reasoning on this one.

Would you rather use flatpaks, appimages, or snaps and be able to have an unlimited audience.

Versus using deb packages, signing up for inevitable dependency hell headaches (guaranteed), and only ever having a medium size audience.