Will it work sanely with Make, handle modular documents better than TeX, etc? The biggest frustration with me and TeX isn't the quality of its output or its ext

Will it work sanely with Make, handle modular documents better than TeX, etc? The biggest frustration with me and TeX isn't the quality of its output or its extendability, it's simply difficult for me to work it into a reproducible workflow without a lot of effort on my part. With all of my tools that I use that somehow depend on each other I can always glue together the results of my work with one tool to the input of another tool via Make, minimizing human error in translating results over myself, but LaTeX (combined with tools like BibTeX) somehow always breaks this model, which can be very frustrating since LaTeX is such an important component of mathematics research.