The "market" for Nix is honestly OCD people that care about the software production process --- "god willing" our fastidiousness will eventually pay off as ever

The "market" for Nix is honestly OCD people that care about the software production process --- "god willing" our fastidiousness will eventually pay off as everyone else slowly boils in "accidental complexity", and our decisions finally make sense to others. In the meantime, it's hard to convey the benefits. For now, I argue there is surprisingly little business case to care about developer efficiency --- VCs want you to blow cash, and increased developer outsourcing with remote work is covering the stupid complexity costs the cloud imposed. Mainly, businesses are demand constrained. That there is tons of embarrassing supply chain issues rights now is to me in accordance with this. America has gotten really good at advertising and customer acquisition, but we've lost skills at actually doing the basics, as it is really easy to service whatever demand you can scrounge up. So far now, you either really want a clean workbench, even at the cost of dealing with the complexity that cleanup exposes, or you don't. That says whether Nix is or isn't for you.