I could say that it's heavily funded by the public through organisms like the CERN in Europe. Public funding of cool open source software seems to me the way to go
I hope this fixes the flatpak version problem of dialog windows (like edit components) having the top 10-20% of the window not clickable. Very annoying, though I can just use the properties box mostly instead.
I wonder if it's a distro problem like with Fedora's OBS issues (for those unaware Fedora wasn't using the flathub flatpak but their own thatvwas broken)