I may be too far from Python to tell, but it looks kind of incorrect to equate the author and their product. What if Guido decides to stop contributing, will Python end then? Creators of Rust spoken about the fact that Rust went very much not the way they wanted it to, this doesn’t make them not creators, nor does it make Rust not Rust
The team I’m part of wants to ditch Nix in favour of just about anything, because no one wants to maintain Nix and everyone sees it as just source of problems :(
I agree that it was complicated to learn Nix for me, too, but now I see benefits in it but I can’t make them change their mind and tired of trying. Nix could’ve been much easier to advocate for if the language itself wasn’t this esoteric