If make is good enough for you, by all means use it. I also use it for a variety of projects that don't need anything more complicated. People bring in autotoo

If make is good enough for you, by all means use it. I also use it for a variety of projects that don't need anything more complicated. People bring in autotools / cmake / meson when they have more complicated requirements than just "one target to build, one target to install" and don't want to write that logic by hand. Feature flags, optional dependencies, dependency compatibility tests, those sorts of things.