One or more, OK that leaves of course lots of room. I would estimate: (too basic) Makefiles are not. (too complicated) They can be, depends on what you make th

One or more, OK that leaves of course lots of room. I would estimate: (too basic) Makefiles are not. (too complicated) They can be, depends on what you make them to be. (standard library) Well, there is one, there are some builtin functions you can use in the makefile. (too constricting) Haven't noticed that, so I would say no. (too much magic) Hmmm I don't see it. It is very clear what is a target and a dependency and so on. Not so magical. (syntax) Yeah definitely could be better. Even a plain JSON file would be better here.