It’s more like people trying to fly but the best they can do is glide off some hills. And then someone with a helicopter flies by them. Package managers before

It’s more like people trying to fly but the best they can do is glide off some hills. And then someone with a helicopter flies by them. Package managers before nix simply didn’t solve the problem properly - they left behind garbage, couldn’t properly deal with multiple versions of the same package, etc. Easy way to check whether the package manager you have in mind is “sufficient” is to install the gnome group and the plasma group and remove them. How many orphan packages will you have as a result? It is not a cult, people just like proper solutions to problems, and nix is unique in this regard.