[SilverBirch]

I think you've hit the nail on the head with the comment about funding infrastructure teams, where I work there's a mandate to use Bazel everywhere, but the project I'm working on basically doesn't use it because our use case doesn't fit nicely with the existing bazel infrastructure (it's currently not hermetic). The infra team who say we should all be using bazel also say that we can't use the the CI infra they maintain unless we're bazel. So we're basically out in the cold, but despite insisting we must do it their way, they don't offer to support our use case.