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No, what happened is that Pop had broken their Steam package. Also, keep in mind that he was installing Steam shortly after installing Pop, so if the Pop installer also updates everything (I'm not sure if it does, but it should), he couldn't have been very out-of-date anyway.
Luckily for bundled libraries many Flathub apps use flatpak-external-data-checker to automate updating bundled libraries as much as possible. Not to mention bundled libraries are deduplicated between Flatpaks.