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As an Arch user who spun up NixOS for a few months; it's worth it. It will take weeks to perfectly set up and it could take months to properly learn nixlang, but what you get is a solid, unbreakable, reproducible distro. Move over your dotfiles, home-manager, and nixconfigs and you essentially have the same setup on any other PC (though you may have to alter the video driver config).
I had my nixfiles all modular. My nouveau video drivers for the ancient laptop I was using? Imported from a separate config. That way I could leave anything hardware related behind and draw up new hardware configs for the system I was moving to when the time came. Don't like your DE? Comment it out and write in whatever else you want to try.
Don't get me wrong, I still love and use Arch on my main machine. Its just that my dive down the NixOS rabbit hole was really fun and I haven't even tried flakes.