Is hiding unverified flatpaks worth it?

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=421334

The new blog post details how on Mint 22 the MintInstall software manager will hide unverified Flathub flatpaks by default, requiring you to manually enable them after viewing a discouraging disclaimer:

Is this really a good idea? There's a lot of popular unverified flatpaks on Flathub that will likely never be verified because developers aren't interested. Examples are Google Chrome, VLC, Dolphin Emulator, Spotify, Xemu, Visual Studio Code, Zoom, Chromium, WhatsApp, Signal, Blender, Inkscape, etc. Most of these aren't on Ubuntu's repository, this will make it more difficult for inexperienced users to get software.

Do you agree? The only one of these I've ever used is VLC, and I didn't have to install it with a flatpak.

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