Am I the only one...

who thinks GCC sucks? Not the compiling engine, but the interface to it. It's made of confusing, illogical, error prone options with stupid default values, and the idea of calling everyone and their mother itself (and mix everyone's options together) is as bad as penis cancer. For example, -s is passed directly to the linker, yet -rpath isn't; -Wall and most of -Wstuff controls warnings, yet -Wl is some kind of hack to pass comma-separated arguments to the linker, especially the ones not supported by gcc; etc. Whoever did this has a disturbed mind. And I think I know who did this.

Anyways, is there a sane interface which provides completely separate, non-automagical preprocessor+compiler, assembler, and linker, with well thought out options?

Compiling Mozilla and KDE really SUCKS, let me tell you.
Signed, I'm a Gentoo user but I use the binary package for Firefox because I don't like spending all day compiling every time there's a patch. I've given up on using KDE entirely (I was only using it to start konsole and then do everything on the command line, seems pointless to have to deal with a bloated DE just for that.