This is one of the reasons I actually stopped being a moderator at askubuntu. Not because of inactivity, but because I started to see that you guys are not really listening to the community and would make what I believe about Ubuntu harder and harder to promote, like it was around Ubuntu 10.10.
BTW removing flatpak is not at all related to the phrase:
“Ubuntu is a community of communities. True to the meaning of the word Ubuntu we all can achieve more than we would individually.”
It is in fact the opposite. If someone wanted to use something that is on flatpak because it is more updated than a snap or deb version, they should not need to do an extra step for it. Also the package is very small compared to other ones found natively in Ubuntu.
It is stuff like this which makes people that promote and defend Ubuntu for years, turn their life even harder to keep on promoting it.
"We think this will improve the out-of-the-box Ubuntu experience for new users while respecting how existing users personalize their own experiences. "
Really? How so? How is this improving the out of the box Ubuntu experience for new users.
Too many nice words for simply marketing the fact that flatpak is going away because it directly competes against snap. On top of it, the elephant of the room which is snap that gets a lot of criticism is not even addressed. Ubuntu was supposed to be a guidance force for many distros, instead, little by little it is turning into something completely different from the times of Ubuntu 10.10 or before.
Not listening to the community, literally doing the opposite, even during public voting sessions, knowing all to well about community problems but focusing on something else.