You're right about the community being mostly dead. There are a lot of bugs and performance issues in the underlying libraries, and Gulp's developers have not been able to get the upstream updates integrated.

I just redid our Grunt stuff in Gulp. It was painful - difficult to find up-to-date information, and the result was not that great. I expected a much greater SCSS compilation performance increase compared to FS-based tooling. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

I'd switch to something like ESBuild and leave SCSS for dead, but it's not an option for me yet :(