I know a lot of people who are unfriendly towards sloppy work, yes. if the driver is of a good enough quality, they will be happy to take it off your hands and look after it for you!
as a user, I hate apps that aren't in the repository. it takes effort to make sure it doesn't clobber something important just because the developer wanted to use the latest and most broken version of some library. thankfully nixos allows me to run whatever version of every dependency and then nuke the whole mess once I'm done with it.
That's not going to be fixed. This is a typical M-N problem. There are too many distros and it would require lot of work to port every app to every distro. Instead, there should be a "platform" (set of APIs) that app can work with and the same app would be able to work in any compatible distro.
To be fair, if the app isn't in the nixos distro, it's rarely that useful. The only one I had to figure out was a proprietary logic analyser interface, but it wasn't too hard.
