I don't know why they'd follow Ubuntu, as long as the Canonical philosophy exists in this space, Linux will never grow an inch.
I'm thankful to canonical for bringing Ubuntu where it is today but let's be honest, they've constantly been making weird decisions.
Please stop and go take a look at ZorinOS, that's what a mainstream distro should look like!
It's ridiculous and the complete wrong way to survive in the the Opensource space. The only thing they have at that point is the name Ubuntu.
No it means a ->approximation<- of what Google and Apple is doing -> Snapstore/Appstore
So yeah totally on your side here.
Suse does not use dnf and in fact libsolv was originally written by Suse and only then adopted by RH.
I just don't see how RH forces them on anybody that isn't a user of Fedora, RHEL and derivatives.
Literally the first line of the article says they are official Ubuntu flavors:
>Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors.
Official flavor does not mean that canonical is having a separate special team for them. Official distros also include Ubuntu Unity and other community maintained distros.