Comparing Flatpak or Gnome to Apple seems highly irrelevant in the context of this post. But, you do realize that neither Gnome, nor Flatpak is a trillion dollar company, right? Also, since when are Flatpak apps "barely usable"?
As far as I know, that's not the case. Maybe some UEFI implementations by some vendors can extract the UEFI firmware that's embedded in the exe file. But, UEFI doesn't run exe files.
Ahh, yes, the mindless drone argument.