Sure, I’d be fine with any standard. It’s just insane how just about every distro has its own sporadically updated repo instead of sharing common packages. Projects that need to be patched and rebuilt should be the exception, not the rule.

Scroll down and you’ll see people arguing about supported features because they’re running an ancient version of Thunderbird supplied by their distro.

From what I've seen, .deb is still king over rpm, appimage, flatpak and snap.