[mrweasel]

True, but having "sophisticated" build processes are a problem in their own right. I understand that there may be special cases, but generally, if you have troubles making a build process work with Make, then using a "better" tool is just paving over the underlying problem.

Just today I was trying to help a friend build some tool with Bazel. While I'm sure there's a reason for Bazels existence, but it's just way to complex. The build failed and debugging the Bazel config was just a major hassle compared to had we just looked at the Java commands in a Makefile.

Similar with Pythons setuptools, even though that is significantly easier with the new pyproject.toml. It's really powerful, but what all I wanted is basically to copy a bunch of files and add a bit of metadata.