Только так и никак иначе.

Why is this “никак” and not “нитак”? Would that be wrong for some reason?

You can’t add ни to так. With так and its inflections, it would be не instead of ни and would be separated. Ни tends to be added to question words, like никто, никак, никакой, никогда, т.д.

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