The NixOS situation is not just 'drama', it's something much worse. Much of the recent conflict has revolved around Anduril, an arms dealer in the US. They use NixOS, and the project has repeatedly made space for them - allowing them to sponsor conferences, allowing their employees on the governance committee(!), and so on.
Anduril makes suicide drones that explode near people. They make missiles and many other offensive weapons. They also supply the surveillance towers for the US border, the ones that are used to track down and murder immigrants. And more recently, the Trump regime handed them a contract for autonomous border towers: https://archive.is/e2NcN
Anduril are Trump's buddies, there is a direct relationship there. They are also using NixOS. Space is repeatedly made for them in the project. It doesn't really get any more direct; every bit of work and praise that you put into NixOS goes directly into the murder machines that they manufacture for Trump's regime. A significant part of the community knows this and is okay with it, even trivializes it.
You're not going to elect your way out of this. NixOS is very directly fascist tech now. It's used by fascists, and governed by fascists. And I think that to a lot of people it has never become quite clear just how direct this connection is.
Do you want to be using a fascist OS? Do you want to be working on a fascist OS?
