I love Flatpaks. It’s always the default for me and I use Arch. Packages from the Arch repos or the AUR are almost always the last resort.

This doesn’t answer your question but try Limo. A Linux native mod manager.

I mainly use brave as an alternative browser for when things are acting a bit iffy on Librewolf.

Yesterday I saw their VPN service running on the task manager. Hadn't used brave for a week. Immediately uninstalled.