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This scheme of naming binaries is popular amongst Elementary os apps. Maybe that's were the Dev took the idea from.

I don't mind it, and if it bothers you, you can easily alias it to something else

It is a scheme used by Flatpak.

The package prefix is mandatory, in order for flatpaks not to stomp on each other.

To be exact Flatpak only requires that for exported data files. Since binaries are not exported they can be named anything.

Binaries are not exported, but helper launch scripts are (those that do "exec flatpak run ...").

Oh alright, I didn't realise that

of course, after you locate the binary in your fs