Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu
(www.theregister.com)
In reality, every time you add another store, you are essentially giving those people root on your machine.
Shuttleworth made the exact claim like 10 or so years ago about Ubuntu not being a democracy and Canonical being root on all Ubuntu machines.
Is it a line in their internal 10 commandments?