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Let's be honest, immutable distros repaired a well meant feature of "do whatever you want". Yes it is possible on a regular distro doing stuff with the core files, changing or deleting them. But not everyone is prepared for the consequences. That's where immutable hits in.
The good thing is, whatever you wanted to do with the core system, it's anyway possible but with distrobox or ostree. But it is separated not integrated.
Only downside is, that it's flatpak who wins the app package manager fight. Not the best one, but the best we actually have.
Flatpak wins because we need one “Linux-wide” solution—one universal package format—and it was the first.
Distrobox can make any package format work on any distro if that is what you want.
My favourite package manager is APK v3 but the distros that use it do not have big repositories. So I end up using an APK host with Pacman / Yay running in a Distrobox.