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In theory it's always easy, but in reality there will always be some major issue. I've tried switching to Ubuntu twice many years ago and there was always something that didn't work. One time it even bricked my Windows install.
Currently before actually installing it, I've installed Pop OS in a virtual machine. I wish I had the screenshot, but entering 4 different commands to try and install VLC player and getting an error that the command is unknown each time is degrading. A lot of the first results for installing software on Linux has commands or repositories that don't work and you have to keep looking. It was the command on the official VLC website that didn't work for me...
I had the same experience with Ubuntu many years ago. And I can't speak for Pop!_OS since I never used it. Most developers only provide commands for Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora on their websites. So they don't work all the time in derived distros.
At least in Bazzite there is an "App Store" called Bazaar, containing many popular apps as flatpaks --> 1 click install. I generally like using the command line, but it was not necessary at all so far.
Yeah I know of those app stores. Sadly they don't automatically include anything also found on GitHub. So not everything is on there.