To be fair,the Nix code in a very simple config probably looks like some weird JSON like derivative to a layman because of how brackets heavy the language is.

To be fair,the Nix code in a very simple config probably looks like some weird JSON like derivative to a layman because of how brackets heavy the language is. I could see someone glancing over a tutorial and thinking "they should just use JSON instead of their own custom data format" without realizing that Nix is a functional programming language.