Browsing through the packages pages on the debian website, I noticed that at https://packages.debian.org/trixie/gnome-software you'll find 'gnome-software-plugin-deb' listed twice. One as mandatory dep and again as rec. Why? It's confusing because I absolutely loathe using gnome-software for apt updates and would absolutely rather use it for flatpak packages only.
Could it be possible in trixie to configure it to never use PackageKit and only for snap/flatpak packages? In addition, it uses appstream metadata for the packages and more often than not, graphical applications like firefox-esr is not searchable for the deb package, but you'll get results for the flatpak package.
