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I think the appstore / sandbox / flatpak situation is actually quite accessible to a younger audience that grew up with smartphones. They don't deal with files much
Not to mention the fact chromebooks exists where local files are a mere joke and everything get's uploaded to Google Disk or an alternative to that and they have never been more popular. The average person doesn't save a word-processing document on a computer locally, they save it on a cloud and trust whoever owns that cloud service.