Is it a stretch to consider the possibility that our extinction is near?

The way the founder replied coldly and closed the GitHub issue is pretty telling. Now they’re doing damage control.

It’s usually better to stay away from VC funded software. They exist for the sole purpose of turning a rich guy’s million dollars into 100.

Yeah. Most small changes will not rebuild everything. It’s just the core dependency updates that are most expensive. Like say openssl got a minor update. Now every package that depends on it needs to be rebuilt and rehashed because of the way nix store works.