I think most of the issues are more social than technical. A lot of people feel that flakes were pushed through to serve the needs of their corporate sponsor (t

I think most of the issues are more social than technical. A lot of people feel that flakes were pushed through to serve the needs of their corporate sponsor (target) without adequate time spent responding to community feedback. There is (was?) also some opposition to the way that they were designed to break up the nixpkgs monorepo.