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Ironically, immutable distros becoming the future of Linux makes it easier to tinker.
OCI images used in immutable distros such as Bazzite are very easily customizable and are much safer to tinker with. If you mess up with packages, you can roll back to the previous state and fix it. Mutable distros are also like this, but the recovery process is much more complicated and leaves leftovers in the long run.
See the Tinkerers' Guide for more details.
I was going to reply to the parent comment but read yours, and you're totally right. Tinkering to make a custom Universal Blue image is very much encouraged by the devs, and we want people to share their favorite images. That's how Bazzite and Bluefin started out, after all