[JohnFen]

> without understanding that there is no holly grail solution and some sort of compromise is always required.

Why do you assume that such people don't understand this? Sometimes those compromises mean that the tool can no longer accomplish something important to some users.

I don't think that being upset that software has become less useful is terribly unreasonable or hard to understand.

> Additionally, as it's natural with any new technology, the very first incarnations of the new technology are not very mature and there is a lot to polish, a lot of tooling missing

And while the software is in that state, it shouldn't be forced on anyone. It's not unreasonable for people to want to use software that actually works well in the present.

[depressedpanda]

In what way is Flatpak being forced on you?

[JohnFen]

I didn't claim that it was. I was speaking to the more general point that ceronman was making.

[c-hendricks]

Sounds a lot like appealing to emotion, since you're the one using the term forced.

[JohnFen]

OK, I see your point. That wasn't my intent.

I'll rephrase: while software is in that state, it shouldn't be released.