I believe that’s what ostree is for

Sounds like that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.

For further details, see “The Master Plan” podcast series from The Lever.

Other than the necessities, the one app I allow notifications for is the C-SPAN app. They send maybe 1 notification a week for something like a live presidential address on a news event.

Anything that might create excessive notifications (social media/news) I use as a web app on top of not enabling notifications.

Only texts and calls are audible notifications. Everything else is slient.