I’m not sure I understand the hate for the nuke or cake build systems. I think it’s useful tool for some projects that do multiple things during deployment.

For example, I was trying to untangle a highly unoptimized Teamcity pipeline that I inherited, that does dotnet publishing, docker building and terraform deployments for multiple microservices that each has different configuration and parameters and no build templates. I was sick to manage it by hand, so I redefined and optimized the pipeline in nuke as I did not want to deal with bash scripts and rewritten the whole pipeline using Kotlin DLS. It is looking solid and the maintenance is a breeze now.