The main issue I have with Grunt and other frameworks/build tools is plugin authoring. Can't we just put this stuff in Make files and be done with it? I know, I

The main issue I have with Grunt and other frameworks/build tools is plugin authoring. Can't we just put this stuff in Make files and be done with it? I know, I know, Windows. But it seems like an awful lot of time is wasted building plugins that are just dumb wrappers for CLI options. Or worse, the tool's options get buried deep within the framework, ramping up the learning curve. As a recent example, I stopped using the Grails' resource plugin, and just compiled my static assets outside of Grails. The workflow became simpler because they didn't know about each other--I could use each tool to its full potential instead of relying on often incomplete plugins.