It is better on a "keep it updated by the developer" grounds and that's all I need. I liek to have the latest with things like spotify, libreoffice, qbittorrent, etc. I like the sandboxing. Sure it ain't everybody's cup of tea, but you can't discount other people's opinion as "wrong". They're just opinions. I know other people value the aspects of .deb/.rpm only based system, and I have weighed the pros and cons personally. Don't expect that we haven't looked into it for ourselves by default.