The problem with $buildtool is that 99.99% of the time the people implemting it had no idea how make worked and invented something easier to use in the particul

The problem with $buildtool is that 99.99% of the time the people implemting it had no idea how make worked and invented something easier to use in the particular domain (grunt, gulp, webpack and many more). Make creates a DAG of files and resolves targets, the examples given in this article also fail to understand how make works.