> If the nix folks could convince him that the package would never contain modified code (no no untested/unsupportable modifications), and further that the home-assistant package in nix would always use exactly the version specified upstream (so no version mismatch concerns), he would likely be less opposed.

They did everything possible to try to convince him but he had his ears closed and refused to listen.

> Unfortunately the latter is very much not true right now.

Based on the above, it is very much true.