The solution to this problem is described here and amounts at installing many optional packages.
vs_BuildTools install ; \
--includeRecommended --includeOptional ; \
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools ; \
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATLMFC ; \
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VisualStudioExtensionBuildTools ; \
--quiet --norestart --nocache --wait