Autotools can be replaced. I know because I&#x27;ve done it. :) And so have KDE which replaced it with cmake. But unless you have a redhat.com address, good luck trying to convince the GTK developers that it should be done. It&#x27;s essentially Red Hat&#x27;s product and they decide what to do with it. Which makes it very hard for contributors to drive meaningful change which makes few contributors interested -&gt; resource shortage.<p>So if the question is &quot;why does GTK have a resource shortage when Qt does not?&quot; then, imho, that is very easy to answer.