Looking at bazel's complexity, and its popularity, one should see that Makefile and its dependents, which forces upon writer a centralized model (where one Make

Looking at bazel's complexity, and its popularity, one should see that Makefile and its dependents, which forces upon writer a centralized model (where one Makefile dictates how to build all code files scattered in subdirectories), cute but unreliable grammar (tab vs. space), unnecessarily convenience features (for god's sake, I never managed to learn any thing beyond simple target & deps, and things like PHONY target are just beyond my mental capacity).