I've seen Bazel reduce competent engineers to tears. There was a famous blog post a half-decade ago called something like "Bazel is the worst build system, except for all the others" and this still seems to ring true for me today.
There are some teams I work with that we'll never bother to make use Bazel because we know in advance that it would cripple them.
Having led a successful Bazel migration, I'd still recommend many projects to stick to the native or standard supported toolchain until there's a good reason to migrate to a build system (And I don't consider GitHub actions to be a build system).
There are some teams I work with that we'll never bother to make use Bazel because we know in advance that it would cripple them.