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I like Fedora Atomic with bootc for this reason. While Nix language is quite confusing and gets even more confusing when you find online advice that has a different setup than you that introduces compatibilities, bootc is just an OCI containers that I can run bash commands in to get stuff set up.
It's still not one-to-one. Generally, I find that using bash to set things up makes more things easier than harder compared to Nix. Though Nix does make some stuff simpler.
That being said, I haven't tried NixOS in a while. I'm sure that with a decent LLMs, today its easier than ever to make a competent NixOS config. I've been meaning to try, but haven't found the time.