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I have tried several times to dig into nix and make it stick. Each time I get a little further along, but I always get to the same stuck point: things that I am trying to combine are unclear to me how they should fit together, and/or there are just massive amounts of code for what should be a simple thing.

Nix flakes has indeed made it all quite a bit easier. But, sadly, in the interim, there are lots of things in an in-between state.

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As someone who uses nix daily for work and home, I've found that there is always a nice concise way to accomplish what I want, but finding that solution is extremely difficult. It seems like the best (and sometimes only) documentation is the code itself, so until you get comfortable with the language you are missing a majority of the documentation. It's a catch-22, you have to know nix to learn nix. It really shouldn't have to be that way.

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