The big advantage of make to me is I understand it and can figure out what happens when things go wrong. When something doesn't work the way I want with cmake o

The big advantage of make to me is I understand it and can figure out what happens when things go wrong. When something doesn't work the way I want with cmake or autotools (I haven't used Bazel etc.), I have to randomly start googling things. Sometimes I literally resort to editing the generated cmake Makefiles because I have no idea how to tell cmake what I want it to do...