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I benefit from using flatpaks they are up to date and stable I use flatpaks on debian so that I can have both stability and up to date software, I also get more control over permissions which I've definitely used (I nearly fully restrict discord access to my system)
The main downside to me is the package size but this gets wayyyy better after you install the runtimes.