I agree with you on MsBuild being powerful.

I often really hate certain technologies like MsBuild and use them begrudgingly for years, fighting with the tooling, right up until I decide once and for all to give it enough of my attention to properly learn, and then realise how powerful and useful it actually is!

I went through the same thing with webpack too.

MsBuild is far from perfect though. I often think about trying to find some sort of simple universal build system that I can use across all my projects regardless of the tech stack.

I’ve never really dug much into `make`… Maybe something like that is what I’m yearning for.