Compiling projects is inherently complicated, so the solution must also be complicated. You can solve the problem on a spectrum of easy but lack of configurabil

Compiling projects is inherently complicated, so the solution must also be complicated. You can solve the problem on a spectrum of easy but lack of configurability, or complex/verbose but very flexible. Make is the latter. The author has shown that he does not understand the Make language very well since half of his final bullet points are wrong.