I like the traditional package system, I don't like containerising everything (though I know that is not necessarily coupled with immutable distros). Because then every package can have different library versions and the dynamic loader can't do its thing.
But it's more the configuration that I want to be able to adjust, or to recompile things. As a typical example, on alpine I always need to recompile sudo as their standard version doesn't allow PAM which I need. On an immutable system such tools would usually be in the immutable part.
I had problems with macOS when they switched to immutable (and if you turn off the protection it turns off a whole load of other things too). If I as much as changed the /etc/ssh/sshd_config it would revert with updates.
And really the traditional package system works totally fine for me.
But it's more the configuration that I want to be able to adjust, or to recompile things. As a typical example, on alpine I always need to recompile sudo as their standard version doesn't allow PAM which I need. On an immutable system such tools would usually be in the immutable part.
I had problems with macOS when they switched to immutable (and if you turn off the protection it turns off a whole load of other things too). If I as much as changed the /etc/ssh/sshd_config it would revert with updates.
And really the traditional package system works totally fine for me.