Man, the yocto framework could do for a read over of this.

Right? It generates scripts which are then executed to do builds.

Debugging broken Yocto builds can be a nightmare.

You end up stepping into the build directory environment and manually running the generated code. You try some fixes in it, and then guess on which fragment in what bitbake file to backport that fix into.

"He who must not be named" has a curse upon that name.

Binary optimization through stripped static-embedding and packing is a level of evil even I find upsetting. lol... =3