My experience with Zorin OS

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No need to apologise for length of post.

In answer to why Flatpaks are not liked by me, aoart from introducing bloatware, this post I made some time ago might give you a clue:

Interesting article on Snap and Flatpak

Here is an excellent article on why you should seriously rethink about using Snap and Flatpak, including theming mismatches, centralisation of control (if Canonical don't receive a Snap it won't get in the repos. Similarly Flathub is another form of centralisation, and lastly, security: