> ...not least of which being that it relies on dependency fulfilment order which can be non-deterministic (e.g. if you pass -j).

Didn't actually know that was a thing until I accidentally ran into it yesterday when I ran the make command in the wrong terminal window and the build was very, very unhappy.

At least it didn't bork my entire /home directory like that time we don't talk about...

My general rule is Make for simple things and CMake if it involves distro-packed library deps or I'm building python modules with complicated enough builds that I don't wan't to beat the dead horse of distutils into submission.

Honestly, if I can't tell what the build system is doing without having to ask google then it's way too complicated.