I tried nix (the pm not the os) for a while, and the reward did not match the cost for me. The docs are horrendously confusing to a newcomer, the stack overflow

I tried nix (the pm not the os) for a while, and the reward did not match the cost for me. The docs are horrendously confusing to a newcomer, the stack overflow answers make assumptions about concepts you've never heard of, and generally things are never really explained to a degree you feel confident. Nix feels like one of those things where a lot of people copy and paste snippets, because learning the underlying language/ecosystem/OS takes an extraordinary amount of effort.