This is my experience with both Nix and Guix. They have advantages but they are different to the point of being unusual. I very much want the benefits of these

This is my experience with both Nix and Guix. They have advantages but they are different to the point of being unusual. I very much want the benefits of these kinds of systems, but they both produce a run time system (shell environment, whatever) that is not typical of how most people use software. So, while most other people are helping each other out with the "usual" problems, Nix/Guix users have a different set of problems. Sure, they are reproducible problems often shared by all other Nix/Guix users, but those communities are niche compared to what is typical.