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I am usually not a huge fan of such tools but I am kinda ok with flatpak. The fact that it doesn't need a daemon (or even root) and the relatively sane CLI makes it passable and I use it when the alternative is more painful.
One particularly fitting use case seems to be managing non-Steam packages on the Steam Deck. It funny to see non-Linux users managing to install and use all kinds of stuff through it.