Drat. Does this mean Fedora is hosed? I don't really follow metastories on Linux...

I'd be more worried about Fedora Silverblue and Kinoite, its variants which rely on Flatpak more, as their point is to experiment with a minimal immutable base OS with every user facing app installed as a Flatpak on top.

As long as Red Hat wants to stay in business selling RHEL, Fedora as a distribution is probably not going away nor losing development focus.