Tooling in general has massively improved. I compare Cargo or NPM to what was available 15-20 years ago and it's leaps and bounds above anything that was (or is still) available for languages like C or C++. It was exceedingly common to look at an OSS project and know immediately it would be a massive PITA to set up and build - the more modern a project is, the less this seems to be a problem.