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.... and still you need something to run those apps and utils like Signal or Threema and those will never get into the base system. It wouldn't make sense. And you don't want to burden the developers of that software to have to package their software n+1 times for every imaginable distribution.

Thus Flatpaks isolation and sandboxing of apps using "dbus based" security, pipewire and polkit.

Two sides of the coin of a stable and extendable system.

Unaditable apps like that should not be allowed in core system. Get tablet to run this stuff (way better ergonomics) or run it in virtual machine.

Both these applications are open source. And even if I teach my grandma to start a VM everytime she wants to send me a message - they still have to be packaged for each and every distribution.

That doesn't seem practical.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a breeze, seriously kudos for all of them :)

There is doas as replacement.