I suggested making new build system that has the power of Make or Shake and is still oriented toward frontend development.
You are right that Shake and most general purpose build tools are out-of-touch with frontend. Even for people who are comfortable with these tools, they are not necessarily better than Webpack for the typical frontend tasks. Shake place in this hypothetical tool will be at its backend - like LLVM is the backend of many compilers.
But you can't be serious when you say that make is out-of-touch with the average frontend developer, and then link to this:
https://shakebuild.com/manual