I had the same experience. Immutable OS are great when you have a team of people to manage the tooling and process complexity of deploying and managing them, e

I had the same experience. Immutable OS are great when you have a team of people to manage the tooling and process complexity of deploying and managing them, end users who only want to use software running on those servers, not the servers themselves, and you are bringing servers up and down all the time, then you actually reap the benefits of standardization and infrastructure as code. But when it's just you, you want to interact directly with the OS, and it's just one device, it's just foot guns all day.