I think the main pain point of distro hopping is learning a new package manager, I discovered Nix a while ago, it works on every single OS, has the biggest package repo out there. I replaced Homebrew on my mac with it. If this piques your interest, give it a go. Later, you can integrate with Home-manager to manage all of your program config to have a reproducible dev environment on any machine, as described in the tutorial here.
The catch is it’s really advanced and got steep learning curve. You can adopt gradually tho. Just get started with nix-shell and nix-env
To add to the other comment, Nix really strives for true and actual reproducibility. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that even in builds it uses fake timestamps to ensure if a timestamp is in the resulting binary it doesn’t mess up the hash of it. They really do try to go a step beyond others in the realm of reproducibility it seems.
Thank you, you guys have convinced me to try it!