You’ve failed to mention a single thing that can be qualified as a daily use-case. Okay, it might take an extra click or two to set up a printer, but this isn’t something you do every day unless you work in an IT department. Even then, it sounds like you’re rather irritated that things aren’t how they used to be.

* Laughs in Firefox where this doesn’t work *

The burden of proof is on you.

You accused flatpak of being insecure. The burden to prove that is totally on you.

although codeberg goes down more than anything else I use so this could be normal

They often go down because of ddos attacks, although not exclusively.