> As for the skepticism, all I can offer is my experience which is that it does indeed work, and I've been running this way for awhile.

I believe you. Do you believe me?

> At that point, NixOS just clicked and I'm far more productive with 30+ hosts than I used to be with 1-2.

There’s not much room for improvement in my own productivity here. The amount of time I spend maintaining these hosts is not large to begin with.

> This sounds like you're branching into territory that can no longer be reasonably framed as NixOS vs. Debian (or other distro of choice).

I was never talking about NixOS in the first place!