I had this exact same problem. Luckily I was already using flakes so it was pretty easy to replace the package version.
Commit where i fixed my alacritty config
Where unstable is overlayed into the nixpkgs
My flake setup is pretty convoluted. A simpler answer was already given here.
I would not recommend switching to flakes only for this reason, the same can be achieved without flakes.
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