Comment by eternityforest

Nix's core idea is wonderful, but I wish it could be redone from scratch. Why can't we just layer some Flatpaks that have source code in them or something?

But the whole thing seems like it's designed to express more powerful things than you can easily map to an app store style install/uninstall button, rather than solving the problem with the least powerful tools that give the user the highest level interface possible, and leave as much as possible for the computer to figure out.