I love NixOS and nix-darwing too. Specially now that I can use it without having to learn a bunch of stuff before even getting started. My coding agent is great at it.
I experience the same. When I try to have a rational dialog about trade offs, there’s nothing there. Or the “only runs in Windows” classic 10+ years outdated stuff
I’ve been writing C# on a Mac deploying on Linux for a decade.