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Solution without a problem. A cool solution but yeah.
I don't think that's accurate, personally.
Declarative orchestration systems have been around for years and have a very real use case when needing to stand up servers in a replicable way. Nix is applying that approach at the system level.
I'm not entirely sold on wanting to put that level of effort into a personal desktop, but I don't think it's at all fair to say that it's not addressing real problems.