Is it powerful? Yes

Is it fast when dealing with large volume of data? No

Are the “powerful” features intuitive to new users? Also no.

Source: I use Excel, Python, SQL for job

Most news articles are.

Did the guinea pig write this?

Comparing Flatpak or Gnome to Apple seems highly irrelevant in the context of this post. But, you do realize that neither Gnome, nor Flatpak is a trillion dollar company, right? Also, since when are Flatpak apps “barely usable”?