They were probably thinking that by openly opposing it before it collected enough signatures, they would have given it more publicity and hence made more people sign it.
It's missing the fact that the nix store can be huge, even if garbage collected regularly. This prevents me from using nix on my Ubuntu laptop with limited HDD space.
Sibbo @ Sibbo @sopuli.xyz Posts 398Comments 2,717Joined 2 yr. ago 
Oooooh, I see.