I used to love flatpaks, as they are the best of the three universal packaging formats (flatpaks are better than appimages and snaps, imo). Lately, I have been playing around with systemd-free distros, and flatpaks were a good way to overcome compatibility issues and still run the packages I needed, at least that was the case for Artix & Devuan.
Since I started running Obarun on one of my machines, I have realized that flatpaks can’t work with a truly systemd-free distro. So much for the “flatpaks work on any distro” claim. So, while they are still my favorite universal packaging format, they are not as good as I once thought.
I either need to find alternatives, build from source, or avoid software altogether if it won’t work without systemd, or large portions of systemd code in a supposedly “systemd-free” distro. The simple fact that flatpaks don’t work on a truly systemd-free distro really shows and highlights the issues with systemd that its detractors complain about.