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Exactly right, people are very confident that they need a non-abstracted build system, and that it needs to be replaced every N years. I'm calling that into question, and people are confidently telling me I'm wrong, without the ability to explain why. So your link is very appropriate.

For the same reason someone creates a new programming language every second day: some people find it interesting, some people like to learn new languages, and sometimes a new language actually brings something really valuable.

Is it worth putting those resources into a new build system? Apparently Facebook thinks so. You don't have to agree, you can use Visual Studio.

It just seems like you say "if I don't care about build systems, nobody should".

Well, at the top-level of this comment section I see people cheering this on, and people excited to try this out in their own. I don't think they all work at Facebook, so maybe they should be closer to me than Facebook on this matter.

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