It's easy to inspect a single setting with `inspect`, but it's very unwieldy to try to examine the entire dependency tree this way.
The very un-Scala-esque syntactic rules in build.sbt files also are a huge pain for anybody who just needs to dabble. Clearly, writing Build.scala files was a major drag, but it really feels to me that the answer should have been a better pure Scala API, rather than a DSL. It's a really leaky abstraction.
View an example of my pain here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24286551/get-assets-to-co...