That’s right, I don’t want to change something powerful which works really well because someone finds it hard to understand (lacking the prerequisite knowledge)

That’s right, I don’t want to change something powerful which works really well because someone finds it hard to understand (lacking the prerequisite knowledge) or even worse, wants instant gratification and isn’t willing to master it. That’s like wanting to design a CPU accelerator without wanting to learn how to design electrical circuits. Of course I’m going to say no!, I don’t want to change the tool! If learning this stuff is too hard or not interesting to one, then one ought to consider doing something else for a living. We have tools like Maven and Ant and Scons and CMake because someone didn’t get Make and shell but they thought they did. Now I’m stuck with toy build tools which use unnecessary dependencies (like Java and .NET and Python) and only do as much as their programmer could imagine, limited by that programmer’s imagination (and experience). You bet your patootie I’m going to say NO! I don’t want to be stuck with a toy, someone’s misunderstanding of Make.