If I could, I'd compile all my software from source. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of open source developers don't like writing software in C, which means the burden of sorting through dependancy-hell has been deferred to my shoulders instead.
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If not in Fedora repos or any Copr, then AppImage (manage using Gear Lever for that ease of use) then Flatpak
I pretty consistently find the snaps to be the best trade-off of being up-to-date and stable for me. Especially for CLI tools and services.
People spend a lot of time on this one. It must suck to be losing to snap.