Comment by georgyo

There is drama, yes. But it is getting a lot better recently.

It's a thriving open source ecosystem. There are forks, there are differing opinions, and in-depth discussions.

But, universally, everyone agrees that nixpkgs, independent from any implementation, is the real value of nix.

That said, things change. OpenSSL 4, glibc 2.44, gcc 16, etc which then requires a bit of tweaking every now and then.