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I have two NVMe drives - 1TB and 2TB. I keep the OS and "regular apps" on the first one, games go on the second one. Moving the libraries was DIFFICULT on Flatpak. Had to use external software (Flatsomething, can't remember right now) to give permissions and even then, for some reason, sometimes installation would just fail with a "drive error". Oh, and I had to search online to provide the appropriate Steam path for Heroic because, by default, it doesn't see Flatpak Steam.
Flatpak applications run in a sandboxed environment with limited permissions. Steam, being a proprietary app, was never made with flatpak sandboxing in mind, so you need to poke holes in it's sandbox for it if you want it to see your files. Most people do not store their games in a separate location, so the default is pretty constrained.
Applications can have sandbox holes by default. Just checked Heroic's permissions and it can see flatpak Steam's directories. I don't know what might have went wrong for you.
Well, to be fair, there was A LOT of weird stuff happening. Steam wouldn't open at all (unless called from the terminal), or would open with just a black screen (GPU acceleration issue). At some point, I'm pretty sure, I had three instances of Steam installed. It was chaos.