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That might not be possible. What if instead we created a configuration tool that intelligently passed the correct options for you.

Could that tool magically reduce the number of options? That would be quite a tool.

You could subdivide what gcc does into other utilities each with a smaller api.

This way lies Node.js. You'll end up with a complex config file just to orchestrate all these smaller utilities.

Yes. We will call it autotools.

Too late now. Once they exist there's someone that depends on them.

For some things, yes. For example, Rust manages warnings from the source code (-Wfoo is #[warn(foo)], and it's scoped!)