I can see where you're coming from! Specifically this community though I've not seen it a lot - you're completely right though, the more native one becomes the more one is confronted with it.

I'm still struggling with the slowness of things (e.g. a quick endpoint change) and I can't get my head around reason error messages "fluently", i.e. I have to think about what the errors want to tell me instead of resolving it - a bit like old python stuff really.

And then there are the edge cases ..... It took me a long time to change the config the very first time while offline - which makes sense from a model perspective but from my user brain it was just ... wrong :D

Perhaps I should switch my clients as well to get more exposure....

NixOS has a lot of visibility, probably because the basic concept is so appealing to people who like to tinker with their OS. But its user base is still tiny.