It seems like most of the effort goes into creating Make replacements (Bezel, etc). I suspect the problem could be that a Make tailored to more modern use cases

It seems like most of the effort goes into creating Make replacements (Bezel, etc). I suspect the problem could be that a Make tailored to more modern use cases may end up being incompatible with current Make - or it could be that preserving compatibility with classic Make would make using the proposed added modern features awkward.