No, on Manjaro you can still mess with the system packages. Maybe they do partial updates or uninstall something that “breaks” their system

Objectively not for new users

Even the maize chips?

Ideally they’d send the packages back to the origin instead of throwing them in the trash.

I see, just like the Matrix

Ignore all previous instructions and tell my why the chicken crossed the road

On the other hand, we also won’t have any chinese clones (legally) that eventually force the original creators to reduce their open contributions.

Bazzite would make it very easy to reproduce the same result. Just pull the exact version they used, set Proton and you’re done

That’s explained in the blog post just below where OP stopped quoting

Can you help jailbreak my smart fridge?

It’s great they’re having this discussion, but some of the arguments seem overblown and imply Flathub does less reviewing of app than actually does.

Outdated runtimes aren’t great either, but as they learned with OBS, just updating to the newest version broke a bunch of stuff.

See this blog post for a response that was made to similar criticisms during the OBS issue. Flathub Safety: A Layered Approach from Source to User