It's 2022. Why would I learn even more horrible CMake instead of just going full Meson? Looks like it's the same cognitive cost, but no gains by staying on CMake.
For my curiosity, does Meson emit "native" build files, such as Visual Studio, Makefiles, Ninja, or the like?
That's been my favorite part of CMake (even before CLion used it as their defacto project format): if you can get a run of cmake to complete (which, granted ...), then you can open the project in a sane IDE and have library and build targets available