You are correct that Make is being abused because it's common. Me, I'm going to keep abusing Make vs bothering to find something supposedly better, that will t

You are correct that Make is being abused because it's common. Me, I'm going to keep abusing Make vs bothering to find something supposedly better, that will then inject dependency startup problems I'd rather avoid. Yes, abusing Make the way I and many others do is not the ideal use case, but it works just fine. It's good enough at being a task manager.