As someone who has done and is doing Nix as part of my job: you just have to carve it out of reality.
I start with non-invasive stuff like a shell.nix. The farthest I got is dendritic kubenix. :-D
https://simonshine.dk/articles/three-levels-of-nix/
you might like my tools repo if you enjoy these kinds of setups :) i worked really hard on making one file one concern: https://github.com/rrvsh/tools
love the article, thanks for sharing! should post it on here if you havnt
As someone who has done and is doing Nix as part of my job: you just have to carve it out of reality.
I start with non-invasive stuff like a shell.nix. The farthest I got is dendritic kubenix. :-D
https://simonshine.dk/articles/three-levels-of-nix/