... To a certain degree, sure.

But having to stop working on the thing you're building in order to learn someone else's toolchain, build a fix and (and this is key) persuade another organization that a fix is valuable is incredibly expensive.

The KDE guys blew through several build systems before finally settling on cmake. It was a wild ride.

This is the trap we fell into with Bugzilla...

One way to avoid it is to stop when it's good enough, understanding it will never be perfect.

I've fallen in this trap more times than I dare to count.