I really hope this PR gets more attention. It’s a step in the right direction. Quickly iterating on the nix profile implementation might make it a good alternative for brew and others. Newcomers will want to have an imperative way to install packages.
That said, it also shows that even doing a single step takes quite a bit of ‘grabbing attention’-effort. Flakes indeed did too much, but straightening out the kinks seems to take way more effort than the original implementation did.
More nix profile kinks: `nix profile` has bad UX · Issue #7966 · NixOS/nix · GitHub