Stuff you do and don’t document or don’t force yourself to recognize comes back to bite you years later when you can’t use the normal tooling in order to deal with it.
And it’s this right here that forces me to really consider if Bazzite is right for me in this case (and why I didn’t just immediately go with the easier rpm-ostree option). Podman is kind of a necessary tool, at least currently, and if your use case falls outside flatpaks, rpm-ostree, and appimages, it’s Podman or bust (and I currently have an app like that, which I haven’t yet figured out).
I appreciate your experienced advice. I have probably a total five years of experience, so I would be foolish not to consider to the long-timers offering similar advice in these comments.