How did nitrous get such a bad rep...?

It won’t be an excuse but what I will have is probably a relatively slow heads up car on nitrous. I sacrificed NA horsepower and won’t have enough power added horsepower to play with the big boys. I bought the car and nitrous back when my son and I were racing more like a team. Also before several health issues hit, also before I hit my 60’s. Monster Mopar also moved their race date to a week when there are three 10,000.00 races 50 minutes from my house at my home track. I built the car to run in the 5.0 area which would be 7’sin the 1/4. In my local heads up series the guys are running 4.60’s-4.70’s which would make me the slow guy.
I knew that was gonna get ya...lol..:D..
Now back to the original question.. why not Nitrous as apposed to the other power adders???...