So to be frankly honest here: both approaches have their downsides and upsides. We still will ship rpm content, but it will probably be limited to the parts of the system where dependencies don't have to be pinned. And the parts which are getting increasingly complex and where even unbundling all dependencies is a non-trivial effort, will be shipped as flatpaks or maybe not at all… I will probably get a lot of hate for this, but we have to always ask ourselves, whether packaging something really provides any value to our users.
Ha! And how to tell? As far as I know, there are no usage nor download statistics, at all. How can I judge the value of a package? It could be that a lot of packages in TW are only used by the maintainer itself, if at all... Cheers, Manfred