If everything in the world had to be 'easy' then no one would be able to ride a bicycle or play a violin. Some tools require expertise to master and the pay-off

If everything in the world had to be 'easy' then no one would be able to ride a bicycle or play a violin. Some tools require expertise to master and the pay-off is worth it. I don't go around complaining that violins are too hard. I think of Nix(OS) as a reproducible build system attached to an operating-system linker. It eliminates entire classes of bug reports because (almost) every issue is fully reproducible. If you'd prefer to keep shipping massive binary blobs of gunk around in container images then you have only yourself to blame when things get weird and no one understands what's in the image.