There are projects that generate files, depend on multiple languages, etc. If you push the job of a build tool to the compiler infrastructure, then why even have a “build tool” in the first place? Make is simply anemic for anything remotely complex, and there are countless better tools that actually solve the problem.
Yeah my biggest problem with make is that the compiler has to generate the header file dependencies. This means starting a C or C++ project with make from scratch is a hard problem and there is no default solution or default file for this other than to just use CMake.
