[pmarreck]

At some point, my developer intuition says we'll get something with the core good ideas of Nix, but simplified.

The problem is that implementation of these ideas is fairly hideously complex for the intelligences of most current humans, and that simplifying that complexity requires even MORE intelligence (or more years of more people staring at the problem until the simpler picture becomes clearer).

[callahad]

That's half the argument for Guix, and the same train of thought that led me to Mercurial back in the 2000's.

For better or worse, Nix has owned the zeitgeist for several years now, and I'd be surprised to see it dethroned before the next paradigm shift.