By "rest of us" do you mean developers? I find Nix especially useful on that front by being able to provide a common dev environment and also when used for CI i

By "rest of us" do you mean developers? I find Nix especially useful on that front by being able to provide a common dev environment and also when used for CI it can speed up builds through its caching. They do have unfortunate name of the project and it is harder to find articles about just Nix, while NixOS is more unique.