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This was an exaggeration, I admit.

Nevertheless community of NixOS developers is many magnitudes smaller than the amount of developers churning out new software, hence once you get off the golden path of the widely or somewhat widely software, the probability of a random thing working without additional elbow grease from the one who tries to use it is indistinguishable from 0, due to NixOS' dialect of Linux not being perfectly compatible with other dialects.

At the very least, documentation for the random thing will never tell you what to do under NixOS, and documentation is very much the part of the software product.