This is why I'm also skeptical of the "modern" replacements, like Just for example. The majority of developers already have Make on their system and Make works

This is why I'm also skeptical of the "modern" replacements, like Just for example. The majority of developers already have Make on their system and Make works well enough. When you use Just instead, you're adding friction to the build process for some portion of people who want to work on your code. You have to context switch to go and install it. Brew decides it wants to upgrade everything. Aaaand you've wasted 15 minutes because you went to get a coffee in the meantime.