I use Make the exact same way. Basically, it's a very concise way to express "here are some tasks with dependencies on each other. Abort if any of them fail" an

I use Make the exact same way. Basically, it's a very concise way to express "here are some tasks with dependencies on each other. Abort if any of them fail" and sometimes "some of these tasks can be skipped if the inputs haven't changed". You also get free tab-completion on 99% of desktop Linux systems. If I'm working on a complex software project, I'll probably use an appropriate build system. Maybe Bazel, CMake, sometimes even Autotools. But I'll probably also keep a Makefile somewhere, and use it to automate the process of running that shiny build system.