Make works fine, it's the commands you call from make that don't tend to as compatible. For example, try running rm -rf on windows. It might work if you have GNU tools installed, but it certainly won't work out of the box. On the other hand, the node.js `rimraf` package will do the same thing with no cross-platform compatibility issues.

The history of Make on Windows would Make one think twice about relying on it. What shell do you get when running Make on Windows?

> Sure make isn’t perfect either but it’s a lot less, confusing?

I think that's a matter of what you're used to. I don't use make all that often, so I find make files beyond a few lines quite a lot to get my head around, whereas I spend all day writing JavaScript so I can read/write JSON in my sleep.