Using NixOS to avoid the problems of dependency hell is like intentionally getting infected with sars-cov-2 to get immunity. You're intentionally exposing yours

Using NixOS to avoid the problems of dependency hell is like intentionally getting infected with sars-cov-2 to get immunity. You're intentionally exposing yourself the very thing you're trying to avoid.... to avoid it in the future? Instead of only having to, say, statically compile a single program that doesn't quite work with your system version of glibc or whatever, now you have to do do it for every single program. For popular software this is okay, someone else has probably already done the work. But for the long tail (most software) a pre-existing config won't.