this plead somehow hits all the wrong notes and reinforces why they're in this situation to begin with, i still hope the author finds their footing, but it won't come without some soul searching
the command file generator is usually last to blame for a slow compile, making it output a cmake/ninja/make project would not speed up a poorly structured compilation tree at all
frankly it's a miracle any of them scaled at all, such popularity mostly comes down to an arbitrary choice made decades ago by a lucky vendor instead of some grand overarching design