> The deal-breaker for me was the inability to run third-party binaries due to the departure from standard directory structure.

Did you know know we have FHS compat environments: buildFHSUserEnv?

This is our fallback solution for huge closed-source things like steam + its game games that we agree it doesn't make sense to repackage individually with patchelf.

I'm saying we agree and if we didn't have `buildFHSUserEnv` it would be a dealbreaker for many more than you. Please give it a shot, and us a second chance!