It actually is! There are lots of examples of arcane Nix commands, but as of Nix 2.0, you actually can type `nix search git`. And it works much better than `nix-env -qa` ever did.

Your point stands, though. For example, why is it:

    nix-env -iA nixpkgs.git

Instead of:

    nix install git

(I know what the answer is, but still, it's a question that I think a lot of newcomers are going to ask.)