This is just a general query, about opinions in the packaging team towards appimage.
just a summary of where im going with this please correct me if my assumptions are wrong.
Mageia development teams are often stretched , and they rebuild all the apps, regularly and we are all grateful for that.
But if the Mageia distribution moved to a model where it was the core operating system and a few useful mini app's along the lines of what we see out of the box on a Microsoft only install (ie without all the crap that vendors add) and then the rest was downloaded as appimages or one of the other app frameworks, flatpak or snap.
Then many distributions would benefit from those apps and visa versa and we would not be locked in to specific versions of apps, either way.
for example those that wanted to stick to an old version of an app for whatever reason could even on a newer operating system, or those suffering from a bug
in the version of app supplied with the current version could jump to the latest.
This would allow more freedom in the core, and perhaps more focus.
regards peter