I'm fighting with this daily. Working on a medium size desktop software application, seeing compile times increasing in the past months as developers use modern

I'm fighting with this daily. Working on a medium size desktop software application, seeing compile times increasing in the past months as developers use modernist C++. Past a certain point, long compile times make it harder to improve a large code base. People work around it by adding more stuff at the leaves and never fixing fundamental parts of the code base, avoiding to touch heavily shared code. This is almost a guarantee for another increase in compile time (because you end up accreting more stuff) which makes it even harder to work on the code base at large scale. And that has I believe a concrete effect on the quality of a piece of software. The problem is, there are some low hanging fruits (like caching, parallelizing and distributing builds) so people think they can delay the inevitable. The problem is, those counter measures only deal with the average case, while doing nothing about the worst case.