[gfxmonk]

Fair points. I started the post by stating that I (personally) wanted to use NixOS in the future, but admittedly didn't maintain that tone throughout the piece.

I definitely have humble requirements in terms of deployment size, so (for me) any orchestration tool is likely to be way more effort than it's worth. I compared NixOS (not a deployment tool) to those other (small-scale deployment and/or configuration management tools) because that's what I and plenty of developers I know have used, and I think the comparison helps illustrate the issues that NixOS can solve. Hopefully those who _do_ have experience and need for larger orchestration software can tell from reading whether the problems NixOS solves are relevant to them.