I’m afraid that the level of security needed to safeguard such users would be a dystopian nightmare. I’m sure a lot of them are the kind to just download and install random crap on Windows too. Once again, freedom and security comes at odds.

It also had an install script that will be run as root when the package is installed. Can’t sandbox that.

It’s also useful for big server applications like Nextcloud. I use snap for Nextcloud since it was broken on Fedora when I tried it.