Recently my laptop died, and I just needed another one going in a hurry and I tried Xubuntu because it's the only distribution which had Wifi drivers that worked for a 12 year old Mac I had lying around without any trickery.
It's funny because Nix worked fine, but my Ubuntu installation just stays out of my way and lets me work too. I started to make me question whether all the added Nix complexity really added much value. Would investing in learning Nix really pay off over spending my time learning a new programming language with real world application?
I also think there is something to be said for the fact that, unless you team mates are using Nix,good luck using any of the standard tooling or scripts others will use. One of my favorites are shell scripts that start with `#!/bin/bash` never working and always having to patch them to use `#!/usr/bin/env bash` I understand the latter is the correct way to do things in 2021, but we all know it's not going to happen :)