[sjustinas]

That's absolutely fair, I don't think either the parent or the NixOS devs implied in any way that it should be the right fit for everyone or 100% of the Linux distro market share is the end goal.

For me, the benefits outweigh the quirks of the language. As my alternatives to manage multiple machines consist of: wonky Bash scripts, similar tooling but bolted-on on top of the distro and with no built-in rollbacks (Ansible, Puppet, etc.), or trying to get everything right manually, Nix does not seem like the worst out of this bunch.