I get your problems, and I agree with you this is not always great.

I'm mostly writing Rust, so as long as I have `libssl` available, I don't really need to tweak my system that much to be able to work. I definitely would reconsider, if my work would involve using Python...

Although, I'm kind of interested about the challenge of understanding the packaging of these dependencies you're talking about. Making the whole compilation setup nice and clean with nix. But, I don't know, I get it it's not for everybody. And it also might be these lockdowns that put me to this mode of doing stuff such as tweaking NixOS.

Then, again, computers are my hobby. And new challenge is always accepted!