Why is there no "installer" for NixOS?

I think there are many people in the community who would welcome a good graphical or TUI installer. Here are some links to relevant efforts you might want to look into, either for inspiration or to try to push them forward by getting involved in them. I’ve tried to order them by how recently they’ve been active as well as how relevant they are. Probably all of them are worth at least a glance:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/21662

https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui/issues/77

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/70

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