Comment by mdaniel

> It’s used for the same reason we write shell scripts

Only worse since it also uses $ for its variables leading to "thing:\n\t env FRED=$$HOME/thing some-command -p $$AWS_PROFILE $(OTHER_THING) -d $$(date +%s)" level of squinting

So for those using it as a task runner from the 60s, without dependency tracking, now it's just laziness over a shell script that has "dependencies" in an imperative and shellcheck-able way