Admittedly, my first 2 or 3 npm scripts based build processes did start to get a bit ugly. But I'm much better at writing them now, so they stay pretty sane.

> That's fine, but you're missing critical features that Make provides; make won't even rebuild a target if no files have changed.

WebPack does this for me too. Also my ava tests don't rerun for files that haven't changed while watching.

Genuinely curious, what scenarios precisely do you find this feature of Make useful?

Also, Make isn't truly cross platform ... and since I sometimes work with Windows devs this would be a problem.