i've wanted to like nix, but both times i tried it i got turned off by the config. not the language per se, but how it's used. i was expecting some ocd space ch

i've wanted to like nix, but both times i tried it i got turned off by the config. not the language per se, but how it's used. i was expecting some ocd space church dream where all the configs for the packages had been coalesced into nice clean abstractions on top of this language, what i found was that it felt like most config was kinda random and arbitrary. the naming of settings wasn't consistent and that older alternatives felt more consistent. (whether it be --with flags in autotools or the use flag system in gentoo). i really like the reproducibility goals and the separation and gnu stow like structuring of installed packages, i just had a hard time with the inconsistencies with how the nix language was used to express configuration for packages.