Thank you, TIL about ubi! My brain is now compiling a list of places where this will replace either a shell script or flake for my projects :).

Tasks sounds similar process-compose which is bundled into Devbox. I'll have to read up more on tasks though to see if that's an accurate assessment.

Nix is definitely a double-edged sword... One thing I like about Devbox is that it keeps Nix mostly (!) out of sight, mostly unless I want a binary from a GitHub release :).