It may be economically effective but such heartless, buggy software is a drain to use. I care about that delta, and yes this can be extrapolated to other industries.
In terms of task running specifically it does generally stay that simple for the likes of just.
The only complexity there is getting it installed on everyone's machine, but that's true of most tooling, even the common stuff given versions won't match. I solve that with Nix.
Static types are documentative, and language servers often also show you things like JSDoc alongside the type signature. Nix has neither of these, hence I have to check the source code or run a build and see what happens.
I really like Nix but in this particular way it feels like taking a big step backwards from the other languages I frequently use, particularly for a language in which you'll necessarily be constantly interacting with bespoke interfaces.
I agree that the documentation story could be better. I also think it's a great shame that the language isn't statically-typed, so to understand how to use something I have to inspect its source code.
I've found it to be quite flexible though. For example, here's a commit in which I apply a patch to a tool to solve a problem that the derivation hadn't taken into account (and absent a home-manager solution): https://github.com/samhh/dotfiles/commit/867dd3b4d4b3942a0aa...
Anecdotal but everywhere I've worked on JS codebases has used lockfiles. It might be this isn't affecting that many but those it is affecting are loud.
If you interpret "spirituality" this broadly then the word is useless. This is why you'll receive some dismissive answers.
I drink espresso every morning. I challenge you to find a way to link that to this thread that isn't as useless as defining a synonym for the word "habit", or "preference", or similar.
Reality doesn't have to be interesting, nor do the results of self-examination. As best I can tell I'm a biological entity with a false sense of self and free will on a rock in the middle of an unfathomably large universe, the existence of which I will never understand. That's it. That's actually already quite interesting. Why do so many feel the need to try and force the elevation of the everyday and the mundane into that same plane? And worse yet, to speak condescendingly of others as you do so.