Seamless native builds are quite doable, but the tooling needs to be very deliberately designed around that. For a good example of how far this can be taken, consider https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...

I'm a huge Zig fan! Thank you for making native programming fun again! Zig is the exception to native build systems being painful.

But even a great build system doesn't help when old native libraries don't support newer hardware or OSs. At some point the high level -> native abstractions break and then builds break. :(