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compile times are fast enough now that if the tools were friendly enough I don't know it would be so inconvenient to the end user anymore.

is there any distros out there now that are source based like Gentoo with more friendly defaults?

And why exactly can't the source be compromised?

There's NixOS. By default it uses a binary cache, but it'd be easy to disable that if you want to.

And reproducible builds are a work in progress.