I'm not sure what the ~deciders would say, but experimental here means something like "opt-in public beta." Maybe you're drawing a distinction I'm missing, but

I'm not sure what the ~deciders would say, but experimental here means something like "opt-in public beta." Maybe you're drawing a distinction I'm missing, but it doesn't strike me as that weird to note experimental features when the goal is to entice adventurous users to put them through the paces. Is the question more like, "why is there a release if flakes aren't ready?" In that case, yes, I think the release is more pragmatic than semantic. You can read a little more in https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-release-schedule-and-roadmap/14204 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-release-schedule-and-roadm..., but basically the release cycle stretched out long enough for a lot of backport friction to build up. To give one big example: the documentation had been converted to markdown in master, but not in 2.3-maintenance--backporting anything with documentation updates also meant re-writing the documentation changes back into docbook.