Really appreciate the breakdown, very insightful. So in summary if guix was a tad faster it would be closer to the ideal system and also some modernization of the toolset would also help with the improvement of the guix experience.

Personally tried guix, and its very interesting but I'm not yet ready for it. It does require to dive a lot deeper into the documentation since it provides less straightforward problem solving like arch/gentoo. But regardless of that it seems like a worthy challenge to take in the future. 👍