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That's a very loose definition of "OS Component". At that point you might as well consider the web browser an "OS Component" too, or frameworks like Retroarch, who offer a filesystem API for their libretro cores.
But even if we accepted that loose definition, so what? even as it is today Flatpak is already an "OS Component" integrated already in many distros (it's even a freedesktop.org standard), and it already implements a filesystem interface layer for its apps. As I said, I think the real reason they won't do it is because they keep wanting to be transparent to the app devs (ie. they don't want them to have to support Flatpak-specific APIs). Which is why I think there needs to be a change of philosophy if they want app containerization to be seamless, safe and generally useful.
You are missing the point. A process-independent file opener that is used by all applications to access files provides user-friendly security. This would be a core component of an OS so the description is correct.
But that was essentially what I said.. I'm the one who proposed something like that 2 comments ago.
Again, I disagree that "this would be a core component of an OS". You did not address any of my points, so I don't see how it follows that "the description is correct". The term "core OS component" is subjective to begin with.
But even if you wanted to label it that way, it wouldn't make any difference. That's just a label you are putting on it, it would not make Flatpak any less of an app distribution / management system with focus on cross-distro compatibility and containerization. Flatpak would still be Flatpak. Whether or not you want to consider it a core part of the OS is not important.
And Flatpak already uses independent processes to manage the whole container & runtime that the app uses for access to the system resources, which already closely matches what you defined as "a core component of an OS".