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Well, one part of it is that Flatpak pulls data over the network, and sometimes data sent over a network doesn't arrive in the exact same shape as when it left the original system, which results in that same data being sent in multiple copies - until one manages to arrive correctly.
Hence why Fedora Linux actually recently removed delta updates for DNF. Turns out it used more data in retries than just downloading a whole package again.
Interesting, didnt know that! That sounds like a fixable issue though...
I think they have moved from trying to fix it in DNF, to using the capabilities found in BTRFS for Copy on write. Can't quite remember exactly.