[Quekid5]

The problem with Bazel has nothing to do with learning curve. It's a pretty simple model as far as build systems go.

It's that it requires a lot of boilerplate and has a very rigid nested structure... which compounds boilerplate, unless you venture into custom plugins/build rules.

Some of the basic ideas are absolutely right, e.g. separating the resolution of dependencies from the build, and purity, but it's just soooo much boilerplate.