> I spend a lot of time advocating for Bazel for this reason. Bazel works pretty well for large scale projects. There are definitely things I don't like about,

> I spend a lot of time advocating for Bazel for this reason. Bazel works pretty well for large scale projects. There are definitely things I don't like about, but I would agree that for large projects it is better than make. But for small to medium size projects, bazel adds a lot of complexity and has the problems you mentioned, for not that much benefit. Especially if you are using a language that doesn't have built in support in bazel,or do something that doesn't match up with bazel's way of doing things.