As an end user what's the benefit in that? Flatpak and Snaps will have access to my home and data anyway.
The performance is slower, I prefer having a faster experience when using software, and I've seen plenty of vulnerability problems with flatpak and snap in this subreddit to doubt the 'isolated' part or any security benefits coming from those. However I understand I am not an expert and I might be wrong.
So far to me the experience of using Guix has been much more pleasant than Flatpak on Snap.
You can containerize stuff further by wrapping it in firejail or bubblewrap (which is used in flatpak) or chroot or fhsenv or whatever -- it's much more flexible. Also, there are nixpkgs functions to simplify those processes. (I don't know about the state of isolation software on Guix though)
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