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I agree with this general sentiment, but I'll add that it's worth reading most posts about Nix through this lens.

Finding your sea legs is rough, and IME people who completely deny this are few and far between. The reward is a pretty impressive lever.

The thing I use and like most in nix is nix-shell.

I set up a shell.nix file on my projects, and together with direnv the environment switches with the right dependencies for each project.

Shameless plug, I wrote about this recently on medium: https://link.medium.com/cYkKMtdHRkb