Installed Flatpaks working in template, not in appvm (yes, restarted both multiple times)

So, AFAIK I followed @solene’s guide correctly (though using the Debian xfce template) but for some reason, after shutting down the template, and restarting the appvm, I am still not able to see any flatpaks in the appvm? I do “flatpak list” and nada? The packages are definitely installed in the template as i started one of them to make sure and the applications show up in the settings/applications tab but the appvm isnt seeing them? Anyone else had this issue?

I did find when i tried to execute the sync-app.sh i got:

user@debian-13-xfce:/usr/local/sbin$ ./sync-app.sh
Setting up watches. Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while!
Couldn’t watch /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/: No such file or directory

not sure if that is the cause but thought I should post any errors i found

I install flatpaks inside the appvm, not in the template, for example (as user, not root)

flatpak --user install --verbose --assumeyes --noninteractive flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-community