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Do read past that and you might understand why NixOS options are a type of documentation. They're not "code comments".
I have tried NixOS, the documentation in many options is subpar. Only the most interesting packages get good documentation. I'll give NixOS a few more years until I try it again, but currently it's rather a hobbyist and 'tinkerer' distribution. Which is fine, but I don't want to learn domain specific stuff which is different from all of the rest of Linux.