I really thought that the effort of Fedora integrating flatpaks with their atomic spins meant that flatpak development was anything but lacking. I wonder if Redhat's budget falls too short to take a look at those PRs? Specially for the replacement of pulseaudio, giving mic permissions because you allowed audio to go through your speakers really shouldn't be a thing. Great summary either way
almost every project that makes GNU/Linux what it is has some issues: things that can be improved, things that could have been done better, legacy code, vision conflicts... it's the cost of being made from several single projects merged together
still such a unique and important option in this world where users only matter for their money and data