I recommend checking out Conducto. It handles dependencies well by leveraging Docker and it is very easy to get started. It can also handle super complicated pipelines that required scaled up processing by just changing one input on the command line.

One way to interpret the 'simpler' requirement is to suggest Luigi. Its a python framework. Its way simpler if you are a programmer.

Of course a lot of people think of Airflow as 'simpler' than Luigi, because Airflow is all graphical. YMMV.

Really happy with Prefect for smaller workflows

Airflow 2.0 :)

dagster