[TheCabin]

Oh, the number of hours of my life I spent debugging CMake files of third party libraries.

You are very fortunate if you import libraries that just work. This is also true for "modern" CMake.

[bluGill]

Bad code is an unfortunate fact of life. How does that go away. This could be either easier debugging, some enforcement of clean code (how is that possible), the tool is limited so you can't do complex things, or just so far only good coders have been involved not the masses of bad coders. My default assumption is the last, but I'm willing to be proven wrong.

[oblio]

Good defaults can take you very far.