Hobbiest Dev, I run Debian as my daily. Flatpak and distrobox take care of everything for me.

Thanks, I had no idea this existed.

software level architecture that can be used on various different CPU architectures providing maximum flexibility.

I’ve only done a little bare metal programming, but I really don’t see how this is possible. Everything I’ve used is so vastly different, I think it would be impossible to create something like that, and have it work well.

Quote from one of the KeePass developers in the GitHub discussion.

@Dio9sys no, this was not communicated to us before hand, nor was there a chance to collaborate on an effective solution for both parties. There also seems to be “no going back” per Julian above. So this one way door decision is the new reality I guess. All I can say is, use Flatpak and get away from distro lock in altogether."