[mellery451]

agree - what's more, the author is really talking about blaze, where everything "just works" because there are massive dedicated resources maintaining it. He literally admits that he likes the copy-pasta-no-think-about-it:

> Surprisingly, I didn’t need to fiddle with blaze, nor did I have to understand how it worked. I could copy some build targets and edit the dependency list, and the build worked as expected.

Sure, systems that just work are great, until they break.

bazel on the other hand, not so much. Heaven help you if it doesn't support your use-cases - you will wish you had Google to maintain your build.