You can use flatseal to change flatpak permissions. It itself is available on flathub.
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I run the Flatpak variant and I am super happy that it only has very limited access to my system.
I do not trust them since this happened some years ago:
https://news.softpedia.com/news/Steam-for-Linux-Can-Delete-Home-Folder-with-rm-rf-470247.shtml
You can always override paths in Flatpak to point to specific host locations.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1086529/how-to-give-a-flatpak-app-access-to-a-directory
Doesn’t worth the potential data loss or other weird issues in my opinion.
You can access all Steam “payload” in the app directory anyways.
${HOME}/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam
And your game data is in ....../userdata/YOUR_STEAM_ID