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It's flatpak. Not snap, by god, not snap.
It's inefficient, but he is stating that he is now using "only 600GB", so I would guess it shouldn't be that notable to someone who thinks 600GB is not much.
I used to dislike it, but consider that Flatpak is allowing a lot of small distros to exist outside of Debian/RHEL/Arch. Void, Chimera, Adélie or Guix (insert yours here) "only" have to implement a desktop environment and Flatpak to be usable. It's not ideal and it kind of goes against the point of those distros, but they definitely couldn't package Flathub's 3300 apps themselves. Especially the proprietary ones that only provide a .deb and .rpm.
Also the sandboxing is nice when installing proprietary stuff. I don't want Microsoft Team drooling all over my stuff.